The LinkedIn group for PHP Developers featured a jQuery tutorial on how to move elements with the keyboard. It linked to a tutorial on lessoncup.com, an ok website with various with jQuery, PHP and MySQL tutorials. I’m interested in this sort of thing so thought I’d see what technique they used in their demonstration. It was this one. I strongly disagreed with the technique so left a polite comment on the share in LinkedIn stating there may be a better way to accomplish the task. Rather than starting a constructive discussion weighing pros and cons my comment was simply removed by author so I took it upon myself to write this article. Continue reading
Category Archives: Front-End
Icon font management with Gulp and Fontello
With all the buzz around GitHub’s switch to inline svg I thought I better publish my current icon font editing workflow while it’s still semi-relevant. No doubt I’ll be adopting full inline svg myself but someone somewhere may find it useful to stick with icon fonts for a while.
In this tutorial we’ll be working with ECMAScript2016 (ES6) so our Gulpfile will actually be gulpfile.babel.js. To begin we’ll add some config to our package.json. Continue reading
HTML5 Form Validation with Constraint API
In this tutorial we’re going to take a look at some basic front-end form validation techniques. These techniques in no way replace the need for back-end validation, but they are useful for providing visual queues for how to complete your forms. Continue reading