by Elisabeth Robson | Dec 28, 2013 | Beginner's Mind, blog, Reader Question
A reader of Head First HTML and CSS wrote in today to ask about web fonts. Web fonts is a fairly new feature supported by browsers that allows you to include non-standard fonts in your web page. It works like this: you specify the font you want in your CSS using the...
by Elisabeth Robson | May 21, 2013 | blog, JavaScript, JSVideo, podcast, Teaser Video, Video
When you begin programming in JavaScript, you’ll need to use variables. A variable is just a bit of storage to hold a value. Just about every line of code you write will use a variable of one kind or another, so it’s a good idea to get familiar with the...
by Elisabeth Robson | May 10, 2013 | blog, JavaScript, JSVideo, podcast, Teaser Video, Video
Dive into JavaScript If you know HTML and CSS, you’re ready to begin learning JavaScript. But you might be surprised, because JavaScript looks quite different from both HTML and CSS. In part four of Head First JavaScript Programming Teasers, Eric shows you how...
by Elisabeth Robson | Mar 14, 2013 | blog, Featured, JavaScript, JSVideo, podcast, Teaser Video, Video
Getting JavaScript in your pages, the right way Everyone knows you put your <script> element at the top of your HTML page, right? Not so fast. In part two of Head First JavaScript Programming Teasers, Eric explains the nuts and bolts of the <script>...
by Elisabeth Robson | Mar 6, 2013 | blog, Featured, JavaScript, JSVideo, podcast, Teaser Video, Video
Exciting news: we’ve partnered with O’Reilly in two ways to bring you Head First JavaScript Programming, our most recent title. Head First JavaScript Programming Teasers First, we’re creating a video series that we’ll roll out with one video a...
by Elisabeth Robson | Feb 9, 2013 | Beginner's Mind, blog, JavaScript
In a previous post, I mentioned that Twitter is changing their API so that all requests to the API will now require authentication. Unfortunately, what this means is that you can no longer use JSONP to request timeline and search data from Twitter (which we showed you...
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