Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Tips. Links to over 40 articles on styling form elements. The <hr /> Contest from Smashing Magazine would be a fun way to start the semester for students who have enough visual arts training to enter.
DOM Assistant Bundle for Text Mate is a new extension for Text Mate from 456 Berea St. Build Your Own Offices with Bloxes at Web Worker Daily. These bloxes were all over SXSWi, used for everything from signs to walls.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
The WCAG Samurai Errata published a final version of their suggested improvements. This is the work of a group of independent accessibility experts formed by Joe Clark to attempt to address shortcomings in the WCAG, a W3C recommendation from 1999. From the Introduction: The first thing to understand is that you do not have to [...]
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Let’s say you have an HTML page that weighs in at 8K. You have some CSS that might contain 32K. And you have a couple of JavaScripts that are 4K and 12K. That adds up to 56K. If you put the CSS and the JavaScript information in the HTML, you still have 56K. One would [...]
Thursday, January 31, 2008
January 31, 2008 by Virginia DeBolt product Head First JavaScript ★★★★★ Head First JavaScript by Michael Morrison (O’Reilly, 2008) may not ring up five stars for everyone, but I like the Head First books. They appeal to the educator in me, the person who understands multiple intelligences and learning theory. The educator in me knows [...]
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The seven rules of unobtrusive JavaScript, by Christian Heilmann, gives reasons for the rules and code examples to explain. Some Job Hunting Advice from Simple and Loveable has good suggestions for students just ready to graduate as well as experienced web designers looking for a new job. MacWorld reports on a study by Nemertes Research [...]
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Reviewer: Virginia DeBolt Summary: very useful product Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries (Pro) Rating: 5/5 Accelerated DOM Scriptiing with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries is from Apress (2007). The book is mainly by Jonathan Snook, with additional chapters from Aaron Gustafson, Stuart Langridge and Dan Webb. Each of the additional chapters provides an [...]
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
I presented this at HighEdWebDev 2007 today. It was presented as a powerpoint presentation. My narrative explained that this presentation was mainly about what sort of student learning outcomes I would expect to see in an institution where web standards were part of the curriculum. I did touch on a couple of important overall considerations [...]
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Saturday, February 3, 2007
A tip of the hat to Dori Smith for pointing out the Yahoo! UI Library (YUI): “The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS [...]
PVII – Three columns over and easy The source of this page contains a JavaScript that is a solution for the problems caused by min-width in IE 5 and higher. This is a Project VII script. For more information about using min-width see Quirksmode and W3 Schools.
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