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WEBLOG OF EDWIN MARTIN, WEBDEVELOPER * Aug 18, 2019 14:14 THE JAVASCRIPT ENGINEER AND THE FRONT-END UI DEVELOPER Before the year 2000, people who made websites did it all: designing, programming, deployment, SEO et cetera. It didn’t take long to figure out that programmers… * Jan 19, 2019 15:41 PRETTIER, THE OPINIONATED CODE FORMATTER With HTML, CSS and JavaScript, it’s not prescribed how to format your code. Everything on one line or not, lots of spaces, tabs or everything packed together, for…

* Jul 1, 2017 16:22

TESTPROXY: TESTING SITES ON DEVICES WITHOUT CONFIGURATION A while ago I was working on several websites in a Vagrant container. The problem was that we couldn’t test the sites on mobile devices. The IP address of the…

* May 1, 2016 12:12

TWITTERFETCH: SHOW YOUR TWEETS THE WAY YOU WANT A nice way to let visitors of your website know about your twitter feed, is to show your latest tweet. Fortunately, Twitter provides several means to do this. One is… * Mar 30, 2016 12:59 MIQ, THE MICRO JQUERY LIKE LIBRARY Today I released miq, a tiny jQuery like library. Since the first release of jQuery a lot has changed: lots of array functions, promises, querySelectorAll, CSS… * Jan 17, 2016 21:59 PUSH THE WEB FORWARD On January 12th, 2016, Microsoft stopped supporting Internet Explorer 9 and 10 . As a webdeveloper, it might be time to stop supporting IE9 and IE10 too. At the time of… * Aug 30, 2015 01:27 YOU ARE NOT A WEBDESIGNER “The saddest thing of being a frontend developer is getting designs that could’ve been for print. Every time.” When I started making

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* Aug 4, 2015 14:23

CSS SECRETS BOOK REVIEW Lea Verou’s new book CSS Secrets is for frontend webdevelopers who use CSS in their daily work. The book assumes you already know, for example, CSS2 selectors,… * Jun 22, 2015 22:58 ECMASCRIPT2015, WEBASSEMBLY AND THE FUTURE OF JAVASCRIPT Last week, just after the 20th birthday of JavaScript, two important announcements have been made. One is the approval of the ECMAScript 2015 specification and the… * Dec 19, 2013 09:41 DROP SUPPORT FOR INTERNET EXPLORER 8 AND USE THESE FEATURES Webdevelopers had to wait more than ten years before IE6 became a marginal browser. Fortunately, with IE8, we don’t have to wait that long. IE7 is already…

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