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HTML5 localStorage with expiry with vanilla JavaScript

Using HTML5 localStorage with expiry
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HTML5 comes with a lot of handy features which can really improve user experience of your web application significantly if you use them wisely. Caching cold data on the client, such as lookups can significantly save the amount of traffic, page load time and even you backed services load. One of the HTML5 features that can help you do this are sessionStorage and localStorage...read more

Non blocking CSS load on the page

Load external CSS files in an async manner
 
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Like JavaScript, CSS files are also loaded on the page by default in a blocking manner. Luckily for us, for JavaScript we can use either async or defer attributes on the script tag itself to change the behavior of JavaScript external file loading...read more

Resize image on the client side with JQuery

Reducing the upload sie by resizing image on the client side
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Image resizing is considered as a server side operation as JavaScript and HTML were not so sophisticated and HTML5 support was not widely adopted for quite some time. even now, some features are not equally supported by all major browsers. Anyhow, HTML5 is here to stay and over time we will get more and more features supported by all browsers. ...read more

GoogleMaps route jQuery plugin

jQuery plugin for easily adding route map on your website
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To make it easier for your customers to find your store location it is really important to show them where you are, but what can make even better impact is to show them where you are based on their current location and to guide them to you. GoogleMaps are a powerful tool for that, but you have to spend some time (more or less) to find code snippets and understand how to invoke their API, add the proper references, handle exceptions which might occur during the communication between your website and GoogleMaps API etc. ...read more

Parse date of Facebook OpenGraph API response with JavasScript

Converting datetime string from Facebook API response to JavaScript Date object
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Recently I had an issue while working on an update for my Facebook Album Browser plugin with dates returned from Facebook OpenGraph API. The dates are returned in the following form 2011-06-13T23:31:19+0000 and luckily for me, converting this string to an actual Date object in JavaScript worked pretty well for most of the browsers, but some of them like Safari on iPad did not know to convert this string to a Date object and because of that I was getting default JavaScript date 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC+00. After some time spent googling and checking regular expressions, I did not find a suitable solution for this. ...read more

Working with GoogleMaps in jQuery style

jQuery plugin for GoogleMaps
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I've used GoogleMaps on several web projects and it seemed to me that I'm repeating a lot of code used in the previous projects which lead me to write a common Javascript library to help me easily reuse the code by only copying the JavaScript library to a project or referencing it from CDN. I could not think of a better way to build this library than to use jQuery and build a pligin for this. ...read more

Recognize links in text content with jQuery

Find and replace URLs with anchor tags inside the text
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Very often when you are dealing with content from 3rd party like tweets from Twitter of Facebook posts and comments you might end up with some URL inside the content. On both Twitter or Facebook or any other social network, links inside text comments are replaces with anchor tags to those URLs. In order to keep the same user experience and make it more useful o your side where you are serving the content from the other party it is recommended that you do the same. ...read more

Detect when file download request is finished with jQuery

Figuring out when file download request completes with jQuery
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Recently I started a small free service app for extracting icons from application files .exe and .dll. It is called IconExtract and it is hosted at http://iconextract.dejanstojanovic.net/ It basically takes application file you submit, extracts icons and returns them zipped, so beside long running upload there is some processing on the back-end when file is uploaded as well. ...read more

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