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/*
 * twitter-entities.js
 * This function converts a tweet with "entity" metadata 
 * from plain text to linkified HTML.
 *
 * See the documentation here: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_entities
 * Basically, add ?include_entities=true to your timeline call
 *
 * Based off existing code from Wade Simmons
 * Licensed under the MIT license

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@media (hover:hover) {
  /* hover-related interactions are A-OK */
}
@media (hover:on-demand) {
  /* hover-related interactions are potentially difficult,
     maybe do something else instead */
}
@media (hover:none) {
	/* No hover possible :-( */
}

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/*!
* toggleAria.js
* Author: Joe Watkins
* usage:

  HTML
  <button aria-pressed="false">Show Content</button>

  $("button").on("click", function(){
    $(this).toggleAria({aria: "pressed"});

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Style tiles with SCSS

Design style tiles in the browser with SCSS! Fork this in CodePen and make your own tiles. Share your tiles with clients with the Full Page link. Go CodePen Pro and update styles on the fly in Live View in a meeting with your client. It's responsive, too. Get your in-browser design on.

On GitHub at http://github.com/jeradg/style-tiles-with-scss

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A brief explanation:

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var delta;
    dragThreshold = 0.15;// "percentage" to drag before engaging
    dragStart = null;	 // used to determine touch / drag distance
    percentage = 0,
    target,
    previousTarget;

function touchStart(event) {

	if (dragStart !== null) { return; }

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How to make faster scroll effects?

• Avoid too many reflows (the browser to recalculate everything)
• Use advanced CSS3 for graphic card rendering
• Precalculate sizes and positions

Beware of reflows

The reflow appens as many times as there are frames per seconds. It recalculate all positions that change in order to diplay them. Basically, when you scroll you execute a function where you move things between two reflows. But there are functions that triggers reflows such as jQuery offset, scroll... So there are two things to take care about when you dynamically change objects in javascript to avoid too many reflows:

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Libraries

• jQuery - The de-facto library for the modern age. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.
• Backbone - Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.
• AngularJS - Conventions based MVC framework for HTML5 apps.
• Underscore - Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects.
• lawnchair - Key/value store adapter for indexdb, localStorage

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Libraries

• 960 Grid System - An effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.
• Compass - Open source CSS Authoring Framework.
• Bootstrap - Sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
• Font Awesome - The iconic font designed for Bootstrap.
• Zurb Foundation - Framework for writing responsive web sites.
• SASS - CSS extension language which allows variables, mixins and rules nesting.
• Skeleton - Boilerplate for responsive, mobile-friendly development.

Guides

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// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console