Mountain View, California
Web developer
Areas of Expertise:
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- Ajax
- Comet
- consulting
- speaking
- programming
- writing
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Nicholas C. blogs at:
http://www.nczonline.net/
Blink and the end of vendor prefixes
April 30 2013
When Google announced that it was forking WebKit into Blink, there was a lot of discussion around what this would mean for web developers, and if the WebKit monoculture was truly breaking or not. Amongst the consternation and hypotheticizing was a detail that went overlooked by many: Blink’s plan to… read moreGetting the URL of an iframe’s parent
April 16 2013
Dealing with iframes is always a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you get sandboxing of content within another page, ensuring that JavaScript and CSS from one page won’t affect another. If the iframe is displayed a page from a different origin then you can also be assured that the… read moreMaking accessible icon buttons
April 01 2013
Last week, Pamela Fox tweeted a question to me: @slicknet Do you know the best way to make a <button> that just has an icon accessible? title, aria-label, hidden text? — Pamela Fox (@pamelafox) March 26, 2013 As tends to happen on Twitter, we fruitlessly exchanged 140 character messages trying… read moreInternet Explorer 11′s user-agent string: What does it mean?
March 27 2013
Over the past few days, people have been going a little crazy over the announcement of the Internet Explorer 11 user-agent string. User-agent string announcements are typically met with a keen eye as we are still horribly tied to user-agent sniffing on servers around the world. And so when some… read moreWhat kind of a software engineer do you want to be known as?
February 26 2013
Around this time every year, companies start doing their annual reviews. Coincidentally, software engineers start wondering what their peers and managers will be saying about them. Throughout my career I’ve always watched as colleagues worried about the results of their annual review. Will they get that promotion? Will they get… read moreFebruary 21 2013
I left Yahoo a year and half ago in search of new challenges. I left to chase the dream of startup life with some friends while consulting to pay my bills. I had a lot of fun doing both, starting a new company completely from scratch and getting to work… read moreMaking an accessible dialog box
February 12 2013
In today’s web applications, dialog boxes are about as common place as they are in desktop applications. It’s pretty easy to show or hide an element that is overlayed on the page using a little JavaScript and CSS but few take into account how this affects accessibility. In most cases,… read moreWebcast: The Best of Fluent: Maintainable JavaScript
April 24, 2013
Join us for an exclusive presentation by Nicholas Zakas from Fluent Conference 2012. Maintainable JavaScript tackles the difficult problem of writing code as part of a large team. When you're writing code that only you will change, there aren't ...
Webcast: The Best of Velocity - JS Timers, Power Consumption, and Performance
September 07, 2012
This talk explores the browser UI thread and how timers influence it. You'll learn how timers actually work, why they behave the way they do, and whether you're using them in the most efficient manner possible. Learn how timers affect power consumption...
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