⌥← & ⌥→

System wide in OS X, Opt + left/right arrows moves the cursor to the next word.

Been using this like wild since I found it earlier this week.

iOS Touch count

In Mobile Safari, the iPhone can ‘listen’ to up to 5 touches. The iPad’s limit is 11 (testing 4.2 beta).

I speculate that iPad maxes out at 11 instead of 10, for any weird issue where you already have all 10 figures touching and you move one extra quick and it registers as another ‘touchstart’ event.

console.time()

The low-fi approach is to call console.time("timing foo") before the code you want to measure, and then console.timeEnd("timing foo") afterwards. Firebug will then log the time that was spent in between.

Easy way to measure performance, rather than invoking console.profile(). Also works with the WebKit Inspector.

You Can Make A Jquery Object Using Standard Dom

You can make a jQuery object using standard DOM methods

$( document.getElementsByTagName('input') );

Is the same thing as

$('input');

-webkit-line-clamp

-webkit-line-clamp is an unsupported WebKit property that limits the number of lines of text displayed in a block element. In order to achieve the effect, it needs to be combo-ed with a couple of other exotic WebKit properties.

<p style="
  overflow : hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  display: -webkit-box;
  -webkit-line-clamp: 2;
  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
">
  WebKit Browsers will clamp the number of lines 
  in this paragraph to 2. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, 
  consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor 
  incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim 
  ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco 
  laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis 
  aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit 
  esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur 
  sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui 
  officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
</p>

WebKit Browsers will clamp the number of lines in this paragraph to 2. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.