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Standards-friendy eLearning and Web development (HTML 5 version)

Hi there!

pipwerks.com is Philip Hutchison's personal site, and is dedicated to web and e-learning technologies. Many experiments and code samples can be found in the lab. You can download some cool freebies using the downloads page.

If you're looking for something to read besides Twitter posts, here are the latest pipwerks journal entries:

A new removeClasses utility for MooTools

MooTools’ removeClass utility will only work if the classes you want to remove are listed in the same order as the target element’s className property. Here’s a new removeClasses utility that fixes this shortcoming. A framework-neutral version is also provided.

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CustomInput Class: Accessible, Custom-Styled Checkboxes and Radio Buttons

I’m currently working on a new quiz system at work, and decided I’d incorporate Filament’s wonderful stylized checkboxes and radio buttons into my project, which meant it was time to roll up my sleeves and code me some Moo.

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Viewing PDFs in a Browser on a Mac

As a Mac user, one of the more annoying issues I frequently encounter is funky PDF handling in Firefox and Safari. Here are some things you can do to get PDFs working in your browser(s).

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