Tripura seeks NICD’s help to stem COVID-19 spread

As hospitals close, cancer patients take to helplines

Dainik Asam ex-scribe passes away

3 arrested over teacher’s killing

Over 500 migrants from across India stuck in Dhubri

Youth sanitizes village, distributes masks

Forest dept wakes up to fresh Amchang encroachment

Centre’s advisory to NE states on returnees during lockdown

By default, only the html and the body element (plus its children) of a web page are actually rendered. All information within the head element might be parsed and used by the browser, but most of the time it doesn’t get displayed. If you want to, you can use CSS to display these ‘hidden’ elements.

The HTML5

A while ago, I was wondering how exactly one triggers HTML5’s XML mode — let’s call it XHTML5 from now on. You know, just out of curiosity. I’ll always prefer HTML over XHTML because it’s much less verbose and I like to keep things simple.

The following article, written by John-David Dalton and yours truly, was published as part of the Performance Calendar series in 2010.

As you may have heard, the upcoming iOS 4.3 will support AirPlay streaming in Mobile Safari. Previously video streaming was only available in Apple-controlled iOS applications like the YouTube and iPod/Video apps, but the new iOS 4.3 beta opens up AirPlay support to both third party App Store applications, as well as embedded web videos using either the Quicktime plugin () or the

“Touch icons” are the favicons of mobile devices and tablets. Adding them to your web page is relatively easy, but it gets more complicated as you target different devices and firmware versions. Let’s dive in!

HTML5 standardizes the oninput event handler, which should be used to detect user input in JavaScript. Sure, you could use onkeydown or onkeyup instead, but those were never really designed for this particular use case, and it shows.

I am writing this article because I noticed there’s a lot of misunderstanding on the subject of CSS hacks. How do you target Internet Explorer in your CSS? Do you use CSS hacks, conditional stylesheets or something else?

Fun fact: var foo = { H̹̙̦̮͉̩̗̗ͧ̇̏̊̾Eͨ͆͒̆ͮ̃͏̷̮̣̫̤̣Cͯ̂͐͏̨̛͔̦̟͈̻O̜͎͍͙͚̬̝̣̽ͮ͐͗̀ͤ̍̀͢M̴̡̲̭͍͇̼̟̯̦̉̒͠Ḛ̛̙̞̪̗ͥͤͩ̾͑̔͐ͅṮ̴̷̷̗̼͍̿̿̓̽͐H̙̙̔̄͜: 42 }; is valid JavaScript. It may not be immediately obvious, but the real surprise here is that the Cthulhu-esque property name is not surrounded by quotes. Intrigued by this, and having written about the similar topic of JavaScript identifiers before, I decided to look into valid property names in JavaScript. When do they need to be quoted? When can the quotes be omitted? And in which cases can dot notation be used instead of bracket notation to get or set a property based on its name?

Looking for a list of all reserved words in JavaScript? You’ve come to the right place. I recently needed such a list myself, but ended up comparing the reserved keywords in all ECMAScript versions as well. The result is listed below, for future reference.

It’s trivial to find colliding passwords when hashing with PBKDF2-HMAC-anything. This post explains why that is.

Compared to using promises directly, not only can async and await make code more readable for developers — they enable some interesting optimizations in JavaScript engines, too! This write-up is about one such optimization involving stack traces for asynchronous code.

The Tamil Nadu government has constituted a committee comprising of economists, industrialists, bankers and educationists to assess the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the state. It will present a report to the state government in three months.

The state government on Saturday further eased the lockdown restrictions in non-containment areas, including permission for take-away services at tea shops, and allowing shops selling essential goods such as groceries, vegetables and medicines to remain open from 6am to 7pm, across the state from Monday.

For almost 50 days of the Covid-imposed lockdown, our factories have remained shut, academic schedules upset, malls and theatres locked and infrastructure work stalled. The virus has stopped us in our tracks. But not forever.

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from Chennai.

The diagnosis of cancer is a shock in itself and then comes another - the risk of infertility