Before I start off, this isn’t a Mac vs. PC bash article. Nor is it a comparison between the two. I disclaim any statements about the superiority of each platform, since this will not be an article discussion these topics. That said, let’s move on to the topic of relevant interest. As any self-respecting web developer, […]
AJAX can be really useful sometimes. We all agree on that. We’ve pretty much solved the cross-browser divide when it comes to the XHR object by using libraries, but one thing still remains - what about the GUI? I know this might seem like just another post about using AJAX and fancy GUI updates, but let […]
If you’ve ever asked yourself just why your web site or web app doesn’t perform as well as you’ve thought it would, since you’ve given a lot thought into the design of the page and user interface, then you might ask yourself - are you the proper person to be judging the design? In comes usability […]
Well, I’ve written up a short summary of ideas relating to handling Javascript files in relation to requests, not it’s time to evaluate them. First thing I’ve noticed with the different ways of injecting Javascript into the response is the order by which the files are loaded, the problem being dependency. If you’re using a library […]
This is somewhat of an old topic, but digging through a myriad of ways of including jQuery into a website that doesn’t use it (eg. Wordpress having Prototype and such), I stumbled upon a bookmarklet written by John Resig that loads jQuery into the current DOM and enables you to run an onload function that […]
Well, not exactly breaking front page news, but I thought I’d share this handy library of CSS selectors for targeting specific browsers: CSS Hacks
When it comes to rich graphical interfaces, we’re currently being swarmed by all these big and small players readily available on the net - there’s Script.aculo.us, YahooUI, Yui-Ext, Moofx, to name a few of the most prominent. All’s fine and dandy until you try coding some of the stuff inside views of actions.
I know I’ve been away a while, but I’ve been knee deep in preparing for our upcoming show and finishing up on some projects at work and at home. More relevantly (is that even an adjective?), I’ve been implementing the Yahoo! UI JS/CSS libraries, augmented with Jack Slocum’s excellent Yui-Ext. It provides incredible flexibility and code […]
I’ve just stumbled upon a bug in IE6 that doesn’t manifest itself in IE7, and it has to do with floated elements. I’ve used 4 floated columns to display 4 independent DIVs and floated them all left within a container DIV element. During development, I’ve been changing widths of the columns to get them aligned just […]