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Probably old news for many of you. Internet Explorer 10 will totally ignore your code similar to this one: <!--[if IE]> <![endif]--> After some search I found the topic on stackoverflow.com: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9900311/how-do-i-target-only-ie10-for-certain-situations-like-ie-specific-css-or-ie-spec/14087321#14087321 You can also read my reply there. Why do we have to address it? The problem is IE10 has its own rendering engine which differs from other browsers, and some specific css styles still require special handling in case of IE10. The solution for css styles will be using  document.documentElement  - the root element associated with any document,  documentMode property of IE , which says how IE interprets and renders the document, and  @cc_on Statement , which activates conditional compilation support in JavaScript in IE. You include the next one-line script inside of head tag of your html page before your css link. ...

I found it! The code written in February 2010 for the company called kaChing , later - WealthFront . So-called kaChing hired a recruiter -  Dane Santos , who contacted me through linkedin on Saturday morning, and insisted I cancelled my plans for the weekend. Instead, he said, I should not miss this great opportunity and waste spend a weekend prototyping a Widget for kaChing . I agreed. And I wrote the code. And I spent a beautiful weekend day not on the beach playing with children, but in front of the computer. And I sent my code back to Dane Santos. And this is a feedback I have received "from kaChing" through Dave: Regretfully, kaChing will not be moving forward with you.   Here are a few technical comments they shared with me on your code exercise: - update is triggered by button click instead of form submit, so Enter doesn't work - document.forms isn't as robust or as simple as using an id on the text input - arrow uses an img element instead of backgrou...

It's time to update this blog again. It's been a while. I completed a range of small assignments, which don't worth to be even mentioned. A lot of HTML, CSS, ExtJS, Prototyping and Photoshoping. But here is the one interesting, which proved to me the importance of HTM5, and showed how much development can rely on frontend, how much processor work now is performed on client's browser, and which direction UI technologies are moving. StumbleUpon contacted me for frontend position, and gave me an assignment. I did not express too much enthusiasm professionalism motivation aptitude to work in this cool fast paced San Francisco shop, I guess. I completed the assignment, and never heard from them again. Here is the result of the assignment: http://portfolio.kardash.net/StumbleUpon/ . Demo prototype of StumbleUpon frontpage. HTML is very simple. Utilizing semantics of HTML5, tags such as <header>, <nav>, <aside>, <section>, <footer>. All the...