Nifty Snippets

Just a quick note on RegExp#lastIndex : It's misnamed. It's not the "last" index of anything, it's the index of the ne...

Ten years of Hubble photographs of a tiny portion of the night sky, well away from the glare of the Milky Way, deep into the infrared and th...

Some interesting news today: Amazon's S3 now supports CORS , the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing standard . This means that in addition to...

As IE6 finally rides into the sunset ,* Nicholas C. Zakas offers us a reminder of how, in a series of browser releases culminating in IE6,...

Normally we want to avoid doing this sort of thing, but sometimes you just end up having no other option: Recently I couldn't avoid doin...

For those who saw my jQuery - Cleaning up when elements go away post yesterday, I've updated it showing how we can do this right now, ...

(Updated 08/08/2012.) Have you ever wanted to get a notification when an element is removed from the DOM so you could clean up? For instanc...