The importance of Kerning

I'm not that great of a graphic designer, and I'm even less skilled when it comes to typography. But I know the basics, and this is a great (and hilarious) example of what kerning is (in short: the distance between letters) and why it's important (in this case, "click" looks like "dick").

I can't take credit for this image. It was a retweet of a retweet originally posted by @jbrownridge.

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Element.focus() in IE9 running Jasmine tests with Karma

I recently udpated our Jasmine unit tests to run in Karma ; expanding our browser coverage, adding code coverage reports , and using fixtures for testing DOM manipulation . One of my tests kept failing in IE9, but only when I ran from the console. If I attempted to debug in the browser, everything passed. It turns out that IE9 (at least) needed a few ms to catch it's breath before correctly focusing on the starting element. To do this, I just added a 100ms delay before each test ran (Using Jasmine 2.3). beforeEach(function(done){ loadFixtures('myfixture.html'); // Setting focus in IE requires a delay to work correctly! setTimeout(function(){ done(); }, 100); });

Flags vs Vendor Prefixes for Experimental CSS

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Get width and height of a remote image with VB .NET

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