web development

How To - jMaki Events

The January 27, 2007 Tech Tip Introduction to jMaki introduced jMaki, a lightweight framework for creating Web 2.0 applications using standards-based...

0 replies - 2637 views - 05/18/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Firefox 3 RC 1 now available for download

On Friday 16 May 2008 the first release candidate of the third version of the Firefox browser was released to the developer community for further feedback....

0 replies - 604 views - 05/18/08 by Schalk Neethling in Announcements

Making Element Selection and AJAX simple with DOMAssistant

With this article, my goal is to show you how easy it is to implement basic element selection and then add some nice dynamic retrieval of content through AJAX...

0 replies - 5440 views - 05/13/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

The 7 Rules of Pragmatic Progressive Enhancement

In this article I want to point out the reasons why progressive enhancement is a very clever way of developing software and give you some tips and tricks how...

0 replies - 2137 views - 05/11/08 by codepo8 in News

AJAX and Screen Readers - Content Access Issues

The rise in the use of AJAX to dynamically change content without refreshing the page has resulted in accessibility problems for users of Assistive Technology...

0 replies - 819 views - 05/08/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Presentation Layer Accessibility

Not everyone using the Internet today enjoys the same kind of user experience as does the average person. Consider the following:

0 replies - 964 views - 05/08/08 by accessibility in News

CSS Generated Content Part 1

One of the things that had me bothered for a while were visual separators. Whenever I got a design, there were always some silly pipes or > signs that were...

0 replies - 1356 views - 05/07/08 by Niels Matthijs in News

Simplifying and Demystifying CSS Backgrounds

If you've been designing websites for awhile then you probably remember this: <body background="bg.jpg">. I wrote a lot of websites like that...

0 replies - 979 views - 05/06/08 by ldminteractive in News

Interview: Roger Johansson : 456BereaStreet.com

I had the privilege of interviewing one of the great voices in the web design world today. Roger Johansson, 456bereastreet.com, is a Swedish web professional...

0 replies - 861 views - 05/05/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Web page quality statistics by Nikita The Spider

Statistics about Web page quality – like the frequency of certain validation error messages and the popularity of XHTML versus HTML doctypes – are pretty...

0 replies - 849 views - 05/03/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Web Accessibility Tools Round-Up

While there is no substitute for true user testing when it comes to web accessibility testing, there is definitely a lot of room for tools that can aid us in...

0 replies - 3024 views - 05/02/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

23 Resources for Clean and Compressed CSS

There are a number of free online tools that can help you to create and maintain effective CSS coding. These tools include validators, optimizers, compressors...

1 replies - 2387 views - 04/30/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

The conclusion - How and when to use links in HTML pages - Part 3

The final part of this series will cover the remainig forms of linking not covered in part 1 or part 2. By now you should feel comfortable with how you link to...

0 replies - 966 views - 04/29/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Oh look, using Ajax in a stupid way is not a good idea?

It is quite fascinating to me that the newest article on dev.opera.com entitled ‘Stop using Ajax!’ is such a big thing right now. Tweets, shared bookmarks...

0 replies - 765 views - 04/29/08 by codepo8 in News

An Objective Look at Javascript 2.0: Strong Typing

In our first look at the new features of Javascript 2.0, we will focus on the new typing system. We are just going to highlight some of the major changes and...

0 replies - 1727 views - 04/29/08 by Schalk Neethling in News