What’s the best use of Javascript to enhance design?
How often to you see Javascript used to seamlessly enhance the layout or design of a website? What’s your favourite implementation?
I recently added a few scripts to this site to try and even out some of the legacy issues that come with a redesign and to try and bring an additional element to some pages. [...]
Adobe Apollo
A few days ago Adobe released an Alpha version of its new product: Apollo. If you haven’t heard about it Apollo is another desktop application runtime but one with a significant advantage: You can produce desktop Apps using HTML and Javascript.
Adobe Apollo
This gives web developers the ability to take existing functionality and merge it with [...]
Does anyone use frames anymore?
I’ve recently found myself involved in a project where using real honest-to-goodness frames, in an actual frameset, is genuinely the best solution.
You might recognise a certain surprise in that statement. The reason for that is simple: I can’t recall ever actually using frames on a commercial project, or indeed ever actually having a good word [...]
An Introduction to Web Standards Part 3
In the third part of my introduction to web standards I want to focus on content. Content is the king of any site and all too often content is not only put last, but in some cases just thrown in once the graphics are done. This part will focus on taking that content and giving [...]
One form to rule them all
I’ve recently come across a post by Dragan Babić about his project - Uni-Form.
The idea behind Uni-Form is, in a similar vein to Microformats, to standardise web form development by producing a set of universal xhtml modules that anyone can use and style without re-inventing the wheel each time. It includes a set of modules, [...]
Dynamic forms with CSS (and some script)
Ever since I learned about attribute selectors in CSS I have been looking for a way to use them to access properties in order to make forms more dynamic without needing to custom write a load of script every time. This is my bootstrap solution until CSS handles this kind of wizzardry natively.
cssForms is an [...]