Ivan Dimov

Ivan is a student of IT, a freelance web designer/developer and a tech writer. He deals with both front-end and back-end stuff. Whenever he is not in front of an Internet-enabled device he is probably reading a book or traveling. You can find more about him at: http://www.dimoff.biz. facebook, twitter

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Cool CSS3 features CSS 3

Cool CSS3 features

March 15th, 201721280 CSS3 variables are incoming. One example is the currentColor variable which allows you to give the current color of the element (the color property) to other properties, it works as an alias, sparing you from writing again the color’s code. It can be used in the following way:
Sanitizing input with PHP and JavaScript JavaScript

Sanitizing input with PHP and JavaScript

March 15th, 20171923 In PHP, there are a variety of ways in which you can sanitize the user input, depending on your needs. The htmlspecialchars function allows you to transform every special character in HTML into text so that the user cannot enter code in his input. It is good to use the function when you want to show a user input, stored or coming from...
Cool HTM5 Features, Part 2 HTML 5

Cool HTM5 Features, Part 2

March 15th, 20175357 The tel input type stands for telephone while the others should be self-evident. It is good to start using them where appropriate as there are subtle differences in the browsers when you use them. For example, on a mobile phone the tel input type might show the numbers first in the user’s browser and the date and time input types would...
Cool HTML5 features HTML 5

Cool HTML5 features

March 15th, 20172575 You can be more specific, for example, by stipulating image/png instead of the wildcard image/* which accepts all kinds of images. When you add the accept attribute and the user is shown the file dialog, he would be able to select only files from that particular type with some browser magic.
Validation of HTML5 documents HTML 5

Validation of HTML5 documents

March 15th, 20170243 When creating pages, it is important for your website to be valid. That means there should be no errors in the HTML code of your webpages. This is not mandatory but it will provide a boost for your website; both in terms of consistency and search engine rankings.
JavaScript tips and tricks JavaScript

JavaScript tips and tricks

March 15th, 20170368 Use objects/classes to encapsulate your application logic and try not to pollute the global variable scope as this can cause frustrating problems such as libraries not working from variables being overridden. Below is an example how you can structure your application’s logic in a simple way without polluting the global scope.
Brief overview of some basic HTML tags HTML

Brief overview of some basic HTML tags

March 15th, 20170219 Some basic HTML tags developers/designers use regularly explained below. 1. - you can use it for longer, multi-lines quotations from a different source than the rest of the content. They are usually indented by browsers
Cool New JavaScript Features JavaScript

Cool New JavaScript Features

March 15th, 20170274 We are going to share you some cool JavaScript features you will love them features like Base64 encoding and decoding, The vibration API, Constants, CSS property is supported with JavaScript and The page visibility API.
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