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Pack JS & CSS into a PNG

If you’re looking for a really impressive way of compressing your JavaScript and CSS into one highly-compressed file, why not put it into a PNG image and use HTML5′s canvas to extract it again?

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Overwriting the Cisco Eos black bar

Sure: the Eos platform is occasionally frustrating, but the big black bar across the top of the page is easy to overwrite.

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Ordered list ridiculousness in IE6

After six years, I thought I knew every crazy thing that IE6 could throw at me. As it turns out, I had missed out on the ordered list with every element numbered as 1.

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HTML signatures in Google Mail

Gmail’s main shortcoming has always always been their lack of native support for HTML signatures. Fortunately, there is an easy workaround.

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Conditional IF statements for IE

We all know Microsoft’s Internet Explorer plays by different rules to other browsers, but fortunately it’s not difficult to tame these differences with conditional statements.

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There may be many reasons why you would want to block a specific IP address from accessing your WordPress site or any PHP-based website. There are of course, similar methods to block IP addresses in any language-based based web development but WordPress is written in PHP, so that’s what I’m focusing on here. The main [...]

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