This is the monthly archive for September 2005.
30 September 2005
Stuart Langridge explains a Mozilla event that fires when you scroll with the mouse wheel. It's a bit silly to use a separate event when the scroll event is also there, but it's useful to know that you can actually detect the mouse wheel in Mozilla.
Events, Mozilla | Permalink
Scott Andrew encounters the ghost of Netscape 4 and tries to squeeze it into Firefox.
JavaScript, Mozilla | Permalink
Bobby van der Sluis discusses various ways of adding CSS to hide elements only when JavaScript is supported. Includes a discussion of XHTML pages where the use of document.write() is not possible.
CSS modification | Permalink
28 September 2005
Isolani offers a comparison between Ajax, XUL and Flash. Which will deliver the best web applications? Personally I'm not sure about XUL, it's still a bit of a grey area for me, and besides right now it's insufficiently supported. That might change, of course.
Theory | Permalink
27 September 2005
An excellent initiative. I'll follow it with interest.
Society | Permalink
26 September 2005
Simon calls for ideas on how to write maintainable style sheets. I completely agree that this is going to be a major problem, but unfortunately I have no brilliant ideas to share. If you do, tell Simon about it.
CSS | Permalink
25 September 2005
Molly gives some nasty details of the XHTML implementation of mobile phone browsers. And this is only the XHTML, mind you. CSS and JavaScript support will be much, much messier.
Browsers, HTML | Permalink
The other solution to the window.onload problem: HTCs.
onload | Permalink
As it says, from the fifties on. Includes many screenshots of obscure operating systems.
History | Permalink
24 September 2005
The load event fires when the entire page, including images, has been loaded. If clueless users upload 5M bitmaps to their sites, the event may fire far too late and the user may see all kinds of odd things happening while he's already doing something on the page.
What we need is a load event that fires when the document structure is complete, but that does not wait for the images. Dean Edwards provides. IE and Moz only, but it's a nice start.
onload | Permalink
22 September 2005
Opera introduces Browser JavaScript, bits of script that seem to rewrite the scripts on pages that don't work properly in Opera. 90 % of the examples is about changing browser detects.
Is this a good idea? It'll help Opera users in the short run, certainly, but what if it changes scripts wrongly? I'd love to take a peek under the hood to make sure that everything works fine.
JavaScript, Opera | Permalink
21 September 2005
'You will survive any battle in any war UNLESS you show someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.'
Fun | Permalink
By Aaron Gustafson on ALA. May be a useful script. I especially like the way Aaron first builds his scripts with comments: 'do this, then that, then that'.
JavaScript | Permalink
20 September 2005
19 September 2005
Official fix list. Rather longer than I thought. The unload event is not mentioned, but fixed nonetheless.
Safari | Permalink
16 September 2005
Required reading for newbies who want to start posting questions to mailing lists or forums.
Society | Permalink
Also a golden oldie, but it's still funny.
KnowledgeCrush
Coordinating the best satisfaction.
Fun | Permalink
How to use the user defined colors (active application bar, menu font size etc.) in CSS. Very useful, and this CSS capability isn't much used yet.
CSS, Reference | Permalink
A golden oldie, but I'd never mentioned it before. I always like to read about X vs. XP, the more since they're the two operating systems I own.
Tests | Permalink
15 September 2005
Useful set of slides (using, of course, S5) about the basics of unobtrusive JavaScript.
JavaScript, Theory | Permalink
14 September 2005
Eric Meyer says Mozilla's print CSS compatibility sucks. From my own experiences I completely agree.
My Mozilla 1.75 WinXP crashes when I use Print Preview on http://alistapart.com/articles/pdf_accessibility
CSS, Mozilla | Permalink
11 September 2005
9 September 2005
Jep Castelein gives a useful overview of latency problems in AJAX: how and when should you download data? Preload it? Load it only when the user requests it? Small chunks? Large chunks?
Data Retrieval, Linkdumps | Permalink
IE 7 team members chatting with interested parties. Includes a few interesting notes.
IE | Permalink
5 September 2005
Problems with the this keyword in xmlhttp's readystatechange event. Turns out that Explorer considers it the window, Mozilla the event handler, and Opera the xmlhttp object.
Interesting bit of lore.
Data Retrieval | Permalink
3 September 2005
Evolt has been restyled. It's an excellent website to start a career as a web development author on, since it publishes articles by all members, and the feedback and comments are usually quite good.
Since I was moderately active on Evolt from, say, 1999 to 2002, I still have a soft spot for it. I hope that the new site will attract more quality content than the previous one. Don't hesitate, submit an article.
Society | Permalink
2 September 2005
Nice idea. A gallery of simple but effective CSS table solutions, so that data tables become less boring.
In the true CSS Zen tradition you can submit your own designs, too.
CSS | Permalink
1 September 2005
Markus Mielke of Microsoft explains the feared hasLayout property, its use, and the disadvantage of giving everything layout. Very enlightening.
CSS, IE | Permalink
See the August 2005 archive.
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