Tutorial Video For Everybody (HTML5 Video with Flash Fallback)

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<!-- first try HTML5 playback: if serving as XML, expand `controls` to `controls="controls"` and autoplay likewise -->
<!-- warning: playback does not work on iOS3 if you include the poster attribute! fixed in iOS4.0 -->
<video width="640" height="360" controls>
	<!-- MP4 must be first for iPad! -->
	<source src="__VIDEO__.MP4" type="video/mp4" /><!-- Safari / iOS video    -->
	<source src="__VIDEO__.OGV" type="video/ogg" /><!-- Firefox / Opera / Chrome10 -->
	<!-- fallback to Flash: -->
	<object width="640" height="360" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="__FLASH__.SWF">
		<!-- Firefox uses the `data` attribute above, IE/Safari uses the param below -->
		<param name="movie" value="__FLASH__.SWF" />
		<param name="flashvars" value="controlbar=over&amp;image=__POSTER__.JPG&amp;file=__VIDEO__.MP4" />
		<!-- fallback image. note the title field below, put the title of the video there -->
		<img src="__VIDEO__.JPG" width="640" height="360" alt="__TITLE__"
		     title="No video playback capabilities, please download the video below" />
	</object>
</video>
<!-- you *must* offer a download link as they may be able to play the file locally. customise this bit all you want -->
<p>	<strong>Download Video:</strong>
	Closed Format:	<a href="__VIDEO__.MP4">"MP4"</a>
	Open Format:	<a href="__VIDEO__.OGV">"Ogg"</a>
</p>

A complete explanation at Kroc Camen's site, the originator of this technique.

Tutorial Use Firebug in Any Browser

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Just include this script on the site and you'll get a Firebug console that pops up for debugging in any browser. Not quite as full featured but it's still pretty helpful! Remember to remove it when you are done.

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/firebug-lite-compressed.js'></script>

Bookmarklet

Firebug Lite (drag that link to bookmarks bar)

Bookmarklet Code

javascript:var firebug=document.createElement('script');firebug.setAttribute('src','http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/firebug-lite-compressed.js');document.body.appendChild(firebug);(function(){if(window.firebug.version){firebug.init();}else{setTimeout(arguments.callee);}})();void(firebug);

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Tutorial Turn Off Autocomplete for Input

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Just use the autocomplete attribute:

<input name="q" type="text" autocomplete="off"/>

This would be useful when a text input is one-off and unique. Like a CAPTCHA input, one-time use codes, or for when you have built your own auto-suggest/auto-complete feature and need to turn off the browser default.

Tutorial Top & Bottom Halves Layout

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
	
	<title>Top and Bottom Halves</title>
	
	<style type="text/css">
	   
	   * { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
	   p { padding: 20px; }
	   #top { background: #eee; }
	   #bottom { background: #ddd; }
	
	</style>
	
	<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        google.load("jquery", "1.3.2");
    </script><script type="text/javascript">
    	$(function(){
    	
    	   var $window = $(window);
    	   winHeight = $window.height();
    	   
    	   $("#top").height(winHeight/2);
    	   $("#bottom").height(winHeight/2);
    	   
    	   $(window).resize(function(){

    		 winHeight = $window.height();
    		 
    		 $("#top").height(winHeight/2);
    	     $("#bottom").height(winHeight/2);
    		 
           });
    	});
    </script>
</head>

<body>

    <div id="top">
        <p>Top Half</p>
        <p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. Donec non enim in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis. Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam dui mi, tincidunt quis, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus</p>
    </div>

    <div id="bottom">
        <p>Bottom Half</p>
        <p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. Donec non enim in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis. Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam dui mi, tincidunt quis, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus</p>
    </div>

</body>

</html>

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Tutorial Tooltips for Acronyms

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I love CSS

I love <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym>.

Tutorial The Common DOCTYPES

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HTML 4.01 Strict

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

XHTML 1.0 Strict

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

XHTML 1.0 Transitional

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

XHTML 1.1

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

HTML 5

<!DOCTYPE html>

Tutorial Test Page

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A simple XHTML 1.0 Strict page structure that includes:

Basic CSS Reset Loads jQuery from Google Sets up DOM-ready block for jQuery 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

     <title>Test Page</title>

     <style type="text/css">
        * { margin: 0; padding: 0;}
     </style>

     <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>

     <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function(){
            // Do stuff.
        });
     </script>
</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>