Author Archives: C. Scott Asbach

About C. Scott Asbach

Scott is a freelance web designer/developer and stay-at-home dad. He holds an AA degree in Electronic Imaging and Media Arts and is going back to school to earn a BA in Computer Information Systems.

Joe Vaughn for Congress

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Joe Vaughn for Congress

Joe Vaughn for Congress is the political campaign for Joe Vaughn, independent candidate for Nebraska’s second district seat in the United States House of Representatives. He runs against Republican incumbent Lee Terry. His platform includes reforms on several issues including, education, term limits, government spending, and military deployment. Continue reading →

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Substitute Click for Hover on Touch Devices

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In this tutorial I will show you a brief example of just such an alternative. In the example we have an <abbr> with a tooltip. I use the <abbr> tag for two important reasons. First, in modern browsers, <abbr> tags will produce a browser tooltip by default anyway so we will have graceful degradation. Second, we leverage this by putting the text of the tooltip in the <abbr>‘s title attribute and this allows us to use jQuery to grab this text and use it for the content of our custom tooltip. Continue reading →

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