With an increasing number of users on tablets and smartphones, the need to take touch friendliness into consideration is greater than ever. Even though both the browsers and hardware are approaching desktop speed, there are still some issues with implementing web sites and web apps for these devices. (more…)

Quick tip; never use innerHTML (or jQuery’s html()) unless you really want to insert HTML.
Quite often, what you actually want is to insert some text. If this is the case, use innerText (or jQuery’s text()).

Should you need to strip HTML from a string (say you are building a chunk of HTML and need to insert the content of an input-field into it), this is a simple way of doing it:

function stripHtml(str) {
    var temp = document.createElement('DIV');
    temp.innerHTML = str;
    return temp.textContent || temp.innerText;
}

Or, if you’re using jQuery:

function stripHtml(str) {
    return jQuery('<div />', { html: str }).text();
}