Quick Guide to Prototype
May be interesting after all, though I'll still have to study this library in detail.
Libraries, Reference | Permalink
This is the monthly archive for November 2005.
30 November 2005
May be interesting after all, though I'll still have to study this library in detail.
Libraries, Reference | Permalink
29 November 2005
Always useful: a function that inserts text into a textarea at the current cursor position.
JavaScript | Permalink
28 November 2005
Contains a few browser bugs that don't seem to be covered anywhere else.
Data Retrieval | Permalink
27 November 2005
Tantek on CSS hacks.
'It is actually a good thing that a hack be visually ugly from a coding aesthetic point of view in the hopes that the ugliness will be a reminder that the hack is a hack, and should incite a tendency for people to a) minimize its usage, and b) remove its usage over time.'
CSS, Theory | Permalink
26 November 2005
Cameron Adams points out we don't have have an official profession, but that this lack of formal rules, and the chance to write the formal rules for later generations, is one of the great challenges of working in the Web.
Professionalism | Permalink
24 November 2005
Although W3C is the tiniest bit late in jumping on the web application bandwagon, it seems to be determined to catch up. The charter looks good: if features collaboration with WHAT-WG and specifications that will describe actual current browser implementations.
Standards/W3C | Permalink
Isolani adds a few interesting points to the New Professionalism discussion.
Professionalism | Permalink
A list of JavaScript libraries. Does anyone else feel we've got too many libraries and not enough developers?
JavaScript, Linkdumps | Permalink
22 November 2005
If you're creating a Web 2.0 site, be sure to go through this checklist.
Fun | Permalink
20 November 2005
Why the music industry and Apple have opposing interests in pricing music.
Society | Permalink
18 November 2005
John Allsopp on patterns for XHTML/CSS development. Rather long, rather interesting, and I haven't yet read it in detail. It seems very useful and I'll return to this idea some day.
Theory | Permalink
17 November 2005
Jeremy explains the problems of using framework libraries. I fully agree.
JavaScript | Permalink
15 November 2005
Inverse conditional comments explained; ie. conditional comments meant for browsers other than Explorer.
CSS | Permalink
14 November 2005
Andy has an excellent approach to accessibility issues, and he shows it here.
'Those people still delivering nested table layout, spacer gifs or ignoring accessibility can no longer call themselves web professionals.'
Hear, hear!
Accessibility, Professionalism | Permalink
11 November 2005
Brendan Eich reveals a few more interesting design principles for JavaScript 2.0 . As long as it's backward compatible I don't mind, though I don't see an immediate practical value for everyday scripting, either.
Core | Permalink
10 November 2005
Long but very interesting essay about chances and problems in African software development.
Society | Permalink
Interesting idea: pre-process HTML pages on the server, then send them on to a mobile phone.
Only available in Scandinavia as yet.
Opera | Permalink
Results of usability tests of tabbed browsing. Interesting. Again, the Back button is one of the most serious problems.
Usability | Permalink
9 November 2005
Far more complicated than necessary, and I don't understand why they aren't enabled by default.
Anyway, if anyone needs it, here's what you need to know.
Server side | Permalink
5 November 2005
Interesting techniques for ordering columns, applying an equal height to columns, and creating vertical grids. This long article will no doubt come in usefully in a variety of situations.
CSS | Permalink
John Allsopp presents his research of the use of class names and ids. He hoped for a kind of consensus on 'the best' values for these attributes, but didn't really find any.
HTML, Tests | Permalink
4 November 2005
Some more facts about IE7, conditional comments, and possibilities to install IE7 next to earlier versions.
IE | Permalink
3 November 2005
You should bear colour blindness in mind when designing a site, but it's no big deal. Says Richard Rutter, who's colour blind himself.
Accessibility | Permalink
What can we expect from Microsoft? A few more facts about IE 7 and other subjects.
IE, WaSP | Permalink
2 November 2005
A list of fixes.
'Made sure that event.target is always an element, not a text node.'
Yay!
Safari | Permalink
Small but high-quality linkdump on the nonsense called Web 2.0
Linkdumps, Society | Permalink
See the October 2005 archive.
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