#web (4,377 links)
- My DebugBar | IETester / HomePage my-debugbar.com
IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
- Creating accessible charts using canvas and jQuery | Filament Group, Inc. filamentgroup.com · Archived on
This article is a proof of concept for visualizing HTML table data with the canvas element.
- A List Apart: Articles: Sign Up Forms Must Die alistapart.com
I believe we can get people engaged with digital services in a way that tells them how such services work and why they should care enough to use them. I also believe we can do this without explicitly making them fill out a sign-up form as a first step.
- Color Palette Generator degraeve.com
Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.
- Compound Microformats premasagar.com
This demo shows how compound microformats can be used to progressively enhance HTML with semantic meaning.
- Pylot | Open Source Web Performance Tool pylot.org
A free open source tool for testing performance and scalability of web services. It runs HTTP load tests, which are useful for capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis, and system tuning.
- DeviceAtlas | DeviceAtlas deviceatlas.com
The world's most comprehensive database of mobile device information. Everything you ever wanted to know about every handset on the planet.
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Web creator rejects net tracking news.bbc.co.uk
Sir Tim said his data and web history belonged to him. He said: "It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me."
Ranty but potentially useful basis for discussing the issues faced with all-Flash sites.
- John Resig - Progressive CSS Enhancement ejohn.org
Not a fan of this approach but could be handy in certain circumstances
- Mike Davidson - Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace mikeindustries.com
- The Best Tools for Visualization - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
What does all this mean? It means we can expect the web to get itself organized, in a hurry. At stake is a significant amount of traffic from Yahoo search, and anyone else that may choose to build applications on top of this data.
The 10th annual ‘Better connected’ review of every UK council website from the local government Society of IT Management (Socitm), published this month, has revealed an alarming picture of falling standards.
"I’d like to encourage designers to open their mind and consider using some of the other typefaces that are often pre-installed on computers these days." 4 years back and most people still aren't really doing this.
Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever.
- Daring Fireball: iPhone Fonts daringfireball.net
"MobileSafari is limited, however, by the fonts installed on the iPhone.2 Here’s the list.:
- Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
An overview of some of the top trends we cover on ReadWriteWeb; such as Websites becoming web services, Semantic Apps, Open Data, Mobile Web, Recommendation Engines.
- Equidistant Objects with CSS - CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
IE8 will be the last of the major browsers to add support for CSS tables, which will enable designers to use table-based layout techniques without misusing HTML table markup.
- Official Google Maps API Blog: Google Maps Without the Scripting googlemapsapi.blogspot.com
"The Google Static Maps API provides a simpler way to add maps to your website. Rather than use JavaScript, the Google Static Maps API creates map images on the fly via simple requests to the Static Maps service with HTTP requests. No JavaScript, no overh
"A CSS layout that does not use DIV, FLOAT, CLEAR nor structural HACK!" It uses OLs. This is probably a horrible thing to do in terms of accessibility and semantics. Avoid.
Ends with some excellent form design tips.
How do we create transparent columns that can work in all browsers? What if we could use the opacity property but still have the content opaque?
- Extensible CSS Interface I: The Foundation ~ Authentic Boredom cameronmoll.com
"Throughout the duration of this series, we’ll be speaking extensively about markup — XHTML, CSS, and a little scripting. Marking up a website is akin to speaking Spanish. There’s more than one way say something, and there’s certainly more than on
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com blogs.zdnet.com · Archived on
[A] wide-ranging dig into the past, present and future of the Semantic Web
- Designer, Coder: Separate roles or one? ~ Authentic Boredom cameronmoll.com
Do you agree with the statement I’ve made on occasion, that those who can code as well as they design will always have an edge over those who do only one? Or do you believe it’s better for designers and coders to specialize in one role?
- Hill Library Blog: The Entire Communications Industry, in Less than 200 Pages blog.hillsearch.org · Archived on
The 2007 Digital Economy Fact Book (pdf) is a tightwad researcher’s dream: In-depth, statistic-heavy, well-cited, and freely-available online. One could hardly ask for more.
Twitter meter let's you query an index of all the words that have been sent to twitter's public timeline since [...] 11/6/2007 and plot the number of times that word was used over time.
The errata, you will recall, are one group’s opinion of the deficiencies in WCAG 1.0. Your opinion does not have to coincide with ours, but I’d wager there won’t be many areas of disagreement.
"Clearleft lead designer Paul Annett explains how he used the effect to great success on their newly launched Silverback site." More like this, please. Time to start creating effects that look great in good browsers and fall back in IE.
"The rise of "freeconomics" is being driven by the underlying technologies that power the Web. Just as Moore's law dictates that a unit of processing power halves in price every 18 months, the price of bandwidth and storage is dropping even faster."
- cabel.name drafts: FancyZoom 1.1 cabel.name
Javascript to zoom images inline
- SEO and Accessibility » SlideShare slideshare.net
Developer-focussed, gets to the point.
"The word “design” is increasingly confused with “style”. For example, to most “I like the way it’s designed” means that they like the way that something looks.
- Adobe Design Center - Columns and articles from experts on web design and motion graphics adobe.com · Archived on
Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all.
"Brand and comparison advertising done through ad-focused widgets is emerging as a viable way of using the ubiquitous applications. Widgets’ interactive features, their ability to be virally distributed and potentially be placed on a target’s own page
- Fimoculous.com - misc - A Data Point on Every Block - An Interview with Adrian Holovaty fimoculous.com
Getting local right.
- Tom Coates: Web of Data - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Run-through of Tom Coates' latest presentation. Shame the slides themselves aren't available (nag, nag, nag).