Computer-aided image processing technique to protect weavers

Upper Assam people stranded outside State reach Jorhat

Youth sanitizes village, distributes masks

Showdown (also known as PageDown) is a JavaScript parser for Markdown-formatted text. It’s used on this site to generate a formatted preview of your comment as you type it. Showdown is library-agnostic, but fortunately, using it with jQuery isn’t much of a problem.

One of the more subtle yet awesome changes that HTML5 brings, applies to the id attribute. I already tweeted about this a few months ago, but I think this is interesting enough to write about in more than 140 characters.

A few days ago, Martín Borthiry contacted me with a question. He had been using the optimized asynchronous Google Analytics snippet for a while, and noticed an additional speed gain when wrapping it inside a setTimeout() with a delay of 0 milliseconds. His tests made it pretty clear that this technique was indeed slightly faster, but Martín had no clue why.

The following article was published on CSS-Tricks as a guest post.

“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.

This is one of those posts I wrote just to be able to link back to it later. I see a lot of questions on the subject, and even though I don’t mind explaining the same thing over and over again, it’s probably easier to just write it down once.

Recently, a popular new addition was made to the HTML spec: anchors may now have a download attribute. That’s not what this post is about though — instead, I’d like to go over some of the different notations people used to refer to this new element + attribute combo in tweets and blog posts.

Does JavaScript use UCS-2 or UTF-16 encoding? Since I couldn’t find a definitive answer to this question anywhere, I decided to look into it. The answer depends on what you’re referring to: the JavaScript engine, or JavaScript at the language level.

This seems to be a very common misconception that just won’t die. I keep running into it in blog posts, Twitter discussions, and even books.

Since companies even in orange and green zones require components from red zones, the economic disruption has remained, and will remain, massive. The virus is still spreading fast, so economist Neelkanth Mishra estimates that red zones will expand from 130 districts to 181. The answer can’t be to keep shutting down more and more districts.

Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to keep the new Electricity (Amendment) Bill in abeyance till the proposed changes are thoroughly discussed with state governments. In a letter, he said the Bill goes against the rights of states and was detrimental to public interest.

Pfizer and German partner BioNTech SE (22UAy.F) said on Tuesday they have begun delivering doses of their coronavirus vaccine candidates for initial human testing in the United States.

At least four companies of Bihar Military Police (BMP), which were deployed in Patna, have been withdrawn from field duty as a precautionary measure after six Covid-19 positive cases in the 14th battalion were reported till Friday evening.

Even as a large number of cases are being reported from para-military forces in other states, Bihar is yet to record any Covid-19 case among the personnel posted in the state.

President complains to judge on lockdown while his supporters call for ‘invading’ Supreme Court

As sales and exports of fish crash, another huge crisis is staring at Sri Lanka’s fisherfolk.

Ahead of intra-Afghan talks, the Sunni insurgency asks Shias to join the fight against the ‘invaders’

It is now the fifth hardest-hit country with 200,000 infections; Putin hails ‘unity’ in speech marking Second World War win

South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or KCDC, said earlier in the day that 18 new cases were reported in the 24 hours to midnight Friday

With more and more Bollywood celebs taking to social media to interact with their fans amidst the lockdown phase, Kangana Ranaut to Instagram to pour her heart out with a special message which she dedicated to her mother.

Nemcha Kipgen distributes PPEs to frontline workers

JFA pays tributes to martyr journalist Pankaj Kulashrestha

PPCM reaches out to Karang

UCM, AMUCO, CAU, BGVS, actress Tonthoi and others distribute relief items

‘Shift plant from habitations’