August 2011
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Fun with HTML Form Validation Styles
If you haven’t heard already, the current HTML Living Standard or HTML5 spec has in it some super cool form validation. This is client-side form validation that is meant to remove some of the burden of writing validation with Javascript. If you’ve ever written form validation with Javascript I think you’ll agree that this is a very good thing.
Using this new feature of html can...
July 2011
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A Small Redesign with a Little Sugar
Take aways: Look at this site and fork this code if you don’t feel like reading. Since reading Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte I’ve been chomping at the bit to design a site using all of the fancy things written about in that little, yellow, different book. To really take those new ideas and techniques for a ride I needed a small project to work on where I could just go crazy...
May 2010
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All Talkie Talkie
View the slides On Tuesday, the 25th I presented an introduction of CSS3 features to a great group of folks at Refresh NYC. The new features included in CSS3 are something that I’m really interested in and very excited about so it was a good opportunity to really dig in and learn a whole lot about them in a short amount of time. For my slides I decided to not take the Keynote route and...
April 2010
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You Did What with What?
Stuff You’ll Most Likely Do Before Reading Any of This Post View the demo Download the source code You’ll need Safari or Chrome to view the demo There have been a ton of new, really exciting things going on with CSS over the past couple years and I’ve had an itch for a while to work with them. I started out just wanting to do a small project to get familiar with some of the...
July 2009
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I Less Than Three IE6
I am not a fan of the Die IE6 Campaigns, can’t get behind them. You will not see me sporting some goofy IE6 Must Die Twibbon any time soon. I take a pretty unpopular position on IE6; I do not mind developing for IE6, working with it over the past few years has made me a better, smarter developer and I am going to miss it a bit when It’s completely out of the picture. Whoa, look out,...
June 2009
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Ch-ch-ch-changes!
I slapped a fresh coat on the old website. Well, new paint, siding, frame, foundation…who am I kidding? I just burned down the old one and built anew on its smoldering ashes. This is the third incarnation of tylergaw.com and just like the past two versions, I’ve had a damn good time working on this one. I’ve been able to take the time to work with so much amazing code that...