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What does ?v2 mean after a file extension [closed]

A site I get on allot has updated a few of their files, and I wanted to know the meaning of them. For example, their CSS, and majority of their images. Before their update, the file was called ...
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8answers
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Should a website UI designer know Javascript/JQuery as well as HTML & CSS?

My problem is this, that few people mention that a UI designer should not have knowledge of JavaScript they should only know html and css. But I believe that a UI designer should also have knowledge ...
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2answers
190 views

Right mouse click, choose delete on website

I'm implementing a javascript folder tree with basic explorer function: add/update/delete. It's like this: [Menu] Add new school +School A -- Class A1 -- Classs A2 -----Student Tom +School B -- ...
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4answers
341 views

Is it ok to add content when the users selects and “copies” something on the page?

Some websites (using tools like tynt) have started to add something a little surprising at first : When the reader copies part of the article or blog post, something, say the url of the piece, is ...
21
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4answers
1k views

How to tell visitors to activate JavaScript?

How should one tell website visitors that a website makes heavy use of JavaScript?
2
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0answers
196 views

What is the new user interface that services like Google/Google+ are using? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is the top navigation called when it is common to a network or suite of websites? Recently Google/Google+ and other services have adjusted their menus to the top of ...
2
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1answer
440 views

Changing the behavior of the arrow keys with JavaScript

In the context of a widget on a website, what is the preferred way of changing the behavior of the arrow keys with JavaScript? The user can't scroll with the arrow keys and can use the arrow keys in ...
8
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3answers
484 views

Pros/Cons of date- and datetimepickers [closed]

What pros and cons do you experience when using datepickers in web forms or software? What do you think is missing sometimes? What bugs you when using a datepicker? I want to know, either from ...
8
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3answers
3k views

Best design for displaying list under a list of items ?

I have a list of items in a database and i display 10 items with some additional details at a time(as table rows). I use next & previous buttons to fetch the remaining items. This part has been ...
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9answers
788 views

Drawbacks of auto “focusing” on a web page's text field (JavaScript)

Do you guys know any drawback of focusing on a text field on a web page ? It's pretty useful when you know users will use this text field more than others (like on the google homepage), but it's a bit ...
2
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5answers
163 views

Speed enhancement at the expense of not working with JS turned off

I have an image gallery that currently loads the images using standard img tags and since it has a lot of large images it loads quite slow. I can speed things up by having the gallery script ...