#web (4,377 links)
The iPhone apparently uses a link tag in the page’s header to locate a suitable image and then falls back on its own creation powers if that fails.
The iPhone apparently uses a link tag in the page’s header to locate a suitable image and then falls back on its own creation powers if that fails.
- Eric's Archived Thoughts: Unitless line-heights meyerweb.com
Missed this the first time round.
Quick compendium of things to bear in mind when building iPhone sites.
"Xenocode WebApp technology allows Internet Explorer 8, 7, 6, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome to run simultaneously on any version of Windows, directly from the web". Win only.
- IE 8 still does not resize text sized in pixels | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
"Yes, there is full page zoom (which works much better in IE 8 than in IE 7), but the controls for resizing text only are still there, and they still do not work when pixels or an absolute unit has been used." Still? Doh.
- Web Matters - What - no Javascript? xs4all.nl
More reasons for JavaScript off.
- Reasons to Switch off JavaScript ajaxwith.com
Better title might be "Reasons why orgs or individuals might disable JavaScript". List is "Protection from XSS and CSRF, Mobile Device Issues, Problem with Screen Readers." Final one (Framework vs. Coding) doesn't really make sense.
- Blackbaud Labs - Labs Article labs.blackbaud.com
"One day it dawned on me that Webkit is VERY similar on Safari for Windows and the iPhone. Could I somehow embed just the rendering component into a native Windows application and give it enough polish to do a decent job of simulating the iPhone Web browsing experience?" It would appear that the answer is "yes".
Via paul.irish.
- IEBlog : Just The Facts: Recap of Compatibility View blogs.msdn.com
This whole situation is so wrong.
An API that you can use to check whether your site is included in IE8's Compatibility View blacklist. Simply add your domain name to the URL and you'll be returned either YES if your site is on the current blacklist, or NO if it's not.
Summary of the Target class action and outcomes.
- The new natural search spam | Consumers may love faceted navigation, but Google hates it multichannelmerchant.com · Archived on
While useful for consumers, faceted navigation as normally implemented actually confuses the search engines by generating massive numbers of URL permutations that contain mostly duplicated content. This is bot spam.
- Bulletproof Mobile Device Detection and Style Sheets without User Agent Detection or Server-Side Scripting - Bushido Designs Web Development Blog bushidodesigns.net
A List Apart published an article called “Return of the Mobile Style Sheet”. While the article provides some good information, it has several major flaws. After testing this method extensively, I decided to try and build a better mousetrap.
Via alastc.
"We are moving all FeedBurner accounts to Google Accounts." Necessary but a bit annoying.
- Password Manager + Automatic Form Filler for Mac OS X agilewebsolutions.com
Probably a better bet than passwordmaker. "use strong and unique passwords for every site and never forget any of them".
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
We now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL.
You can install it as a local ’service’, essentially a web application running on Apache on your local machine. That means you can adjust the Web Developers Toolbar for Firefox to use you local version.
Good analysis of the recent WebAIM screen reader survey. Use <Hn> tags, think hard about accesskeys, use skip links, know your audience.
- Web Performance Matters - Journal - Acceptable Response Times webperformancematters.com
"The real question is not "What is the industry standard?" but rather "What response time will the users of my Web site or application find acceptable?"
- BBC - Radio Labs - How we make websites bbc.co.uk
For the past few months I've been touting a presentation around the BBC entitled 'How we make websites'. It's a compendium of everything our team has learned from long years developing /programmes, the recent work on /music and the currently in development /events.
- Javascript grid overlay | Labs | Pete Goodman - Web Developer petegoodman.com
Handy. "To show or hide the design grid (or other graphic), just import the following javascript file, and then use the keys Control and ; to show or hide the grid."
One key real-world benefit of this separation is that come redesign time, one only needs to change or replace the CSS stylesheet, and needn’t lay so much as a finger upon the hallowed grounds we call markup. I’m here to say that this mantra isn’t much more than a fairy tale.
- Can I use... a.deveria.com
Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies"
Enables you to build Model View Controller (MVC) applications by using the ASP.NET framework. ASP.NET MVC is an alternative, not a replacement, for ASP.NET Web Forms
- Facing up to Fonts | Slides and notes webtypography.net
Excellent presentation on current state of web fonts/methods and typography. Grab the version with the notes.
Interesting rant about microformats.
Via jerakeen.
- Recreating the button | stopdesign stopdesign.com
The buttons we’re using are imageless, and they’re created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior. They’re also easily skinnable with a few lines of CSS
FireScope is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug, to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS.
- IEBlog : Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8 blogs.msdn.com
Old, but I keep misplacing this link. "We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously."
Via scrubadub.
Interesting way of using twitter to conduct polls, plus a debate that goes on and on (2p: main title, not logo! Otherwise you have the same h1 across all pages on a site).
- Home - cufon - GitHub wiki.github.com
A possible sIFR alternative. "Fast text replacement with canvas and VML - no Flash or images required."
- Geeking with Greg: Marissa Mayer at Web 2.0 glinden.blogspot.com
Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction.
- WebAIM: Screen Reader Survey Results webaim.org
In December 2008 through January 2009, WebAIM conducted a survey of preferences of screen reader users. We received 1121 valid responses to the screen reader survey, which was conducted Dec. 2008 - Jan. 2009. The response was amazing.
- Top 10 jQuery plugins for Form Usability « Steve Reynolds reynoldsftw.com
Via alastc.
I hate myself for marking this. "ASP.NET AJAX is built-into ASP.NET 3.5. It is also available as a separate download for ASP.NET 2.0."
interesting variation of CSS Sprites has been getting a lot of play on large web sites that serve millions of users.
- Best Buy seeks to expand its reach online - Finance and Commerce finance-commerce.com
Convinced that customers’ online-shopping behavior is now deeply colored by social-media experiences, the Richfield retailer has opened up proprietary product catalog data collected through its online store.
Validator S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex) is a stand-alone, easy to install, version of the W3C's HTML / XHTML Markup Validator for Mac OS X.
A Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web.