Accelerated DOM Scripting
Jonathan Snook has written a JavaScript book: Accelerated DOM Scripting. I'll pick it up as soon as it's in the bookstore.
Books | Permalink
This is the monthly archive for September 2007.
28 September 2007
Jonathan Snook has written a JavaScript book: Accelerated DOM Scripting. I'll pick it up as soon as it's in the bookstore.
Books | Permalink
Jeff Croft proposes a new and daring theory of the layers of web development. According to him, the structural layer is not HTML but the database, and he says HTML is about presenting the data (and structures) in a certain way.
This idea was touched on two years ago at Particletree, and it has always been in the back of my mind.
Maybe we could compromise by saying that seen from the back-end, HTML is about presentation, but seen from the front-end it's about structuring data. On the other hand, maybe that's a cop-out.
In any case this is an interesting idea that deserves to be discussed further.
(Via Naar Voren.)
Theory | Permalink
Isofarro discusses text resizing widgets and their social aspects.
Right now the new theory is that we shouldn't include these widgets in our Web pages because most browsers allow users to resize text anyway.
However, Grant Broome points at the social aspects of these widgets (confidence building, for instance), and on the whole Isofarro seems to agree with him.
A few months ago I created yet another text resize widget, and I concluded they're not necessary any more. However, the arguments presented here make clear that I have to re-think this entire question.
This might be the start of an interesting discussion.
Accessibility | Permalink
Stuart's solution for the onload problem.
onload | Permalink
19 September 2007
Bobby van der Sluis's presentation at yesterday's micro-conference.
Flash | Permalink
14 September 2007
Aaron Gustafson understands why Alex Russell has turned from staunch standards supporter to "the dark side", even though he doesn't quite agree with everything Alex is saying.
Standards/W3C | Permalink
Alex Russell:
Browser.Next list of 10 issues that would give Ajax libraries a break and let app authors worry less
Interesting.
Browsers, JavaScript | Permalink
Excellent idea. This is the same guy who gave us A Guide to CSS Support in Email, so he knows what he's talking about.
(Via Roger.)
Standards/W3C | Permalink
Alastair Campbell on blog comments. He acknowledges the problem, but would like to continue allowing comments. Therefore he proposes a comment policy:
This site is my own, it is not a democracy. If you want freedom of expression get your own site. Having said that, comments are welcome provided that they are:
- On topic, i.e. you have read the post and are commenting on the same topic.
- Adding something to the post, i.e. “you suck” and “you rock” are equally useless.
- Polite, or at least professional.
- Not overly promotional or outright spam.
Any comment that does not fulfil these criteria will be removed at my discretion.
If a comment is largely good with a mistake or two, I may correct it.
If you provide a valid email address, I will try to inform you of a removal or correction.
Sounds interesting. I may apply it to my own site, except for the last line.
Blogging | Permalink
8 September 2007
Alex Russell is not happy with Microsoft´s lack of communication about IE progress. Although I´m not nearly as pessimistic as Alex, I agree that some sort of official communication would be nice. It would lay web developers´ fears to rest.
IE | Permalink
Useful list of Safari versions tied to Mac OS releases.
Safari | Permalink
Some test cases that show Opera 9.5´s new CSS capabilities. I haven´t yet downloaded the alpha version, but if it truly supports all that´s mentioned here, we´ve got a nice new browser coming.
CSS, Opera | Permalink
2 September 2007
Some facts and thoughts about WAI-ARIA support in (X)HTML.
Accessibility, HTML, Standards/W3C | Permalink
A few rather interesting ideas.
[...] the core ideas behind microformats were about inverting several conventional assumptions.
Tantek proceeds to list these inversions.
Theory | Permalink
See the August 2007 archive.
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