#web (4,377 links)
- Helping your client maintain markup quality | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
"Make any errors or suspicious markup obvious to the person working on the document." Been doing this for a while - had lost the original source.
- Adactio: Journal - The password anti-pattern adactio.com
Asking users to input their email address and password from a third-party site like GMail or Yahoo Mail is completely unacceptable. Here’s why: It teaches people how to be phished.
- Digital Web Magazine - jQuery Crash Course digital-web.com
As long as you can logically formulate what you want to say, jQuery understands your intentions and will interpret for you regardless of which user agent is listening in.
- greenormal: Mesage from the Green Thing Founders greenormal.blogspot.com
"Green Thing is a not-for-profit online community that makes it easy and enjoyable to be a bit greener." Press release listing involvement: Pete Fowler, John Hegley, Howie B, Mother, Agency.com, Glue, AKQA, Agency Republic, LBi etc etc
- ClickTale Blog » ClickTale Scrolling Research Report V2.0 - Part 1: Visibility and Scroll Reach blog.clicktale.com · Archived on
Visitors appear to be using the location of the scroll bar but not the size of the tracker when scrolling, since the scroll bar location is a relative indicator and the scroll tracker size is an indicator of page height.
"Internet Explorer [...] has a bug where clicking on an image inside a label tag does nothing [...] What I've done is put together a quick bit of unobtrusive JavaScript to "fix" the problem." Nasty, but if you have images as labels...
- Google Maps maps.google.com
Basic Google maps via little-known querystring.
Pick something small in your organization. Internal systems are usually a good fit [...] Pitch this system as a test balloon for another way of doing things.
- Adactio: Journal - Microsoft in London adactio.com
Microsoft threw an invite-only gathering at its London offices: something about start-ups and Web 2.0. [...] Here are the notes I took…
This free online service converts any web page to an RSS feed on the fly.
- Undo Form Reset for kids who can’t reset good - Article - andrewingram andrewingram.net · Archived on
Occasionally we all accidentally hit the reset button on a web form and lose all of what we just spent time typing out. I’ve written a little bit of javascript that makes it possible to recover from these disasters.
- Website Performance | CSS Sprite Generator spritegen.website-performance.org
- Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites - SocialMarker.com socialmarker.com
"It can help you spread a link on 32 of the best social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes!" Pure evil.
- Slashdot | Vodafone Move Invites Web Development Chaos hardware.slashdot.org
Some pretty useful thoughts on mobile web in the comments.
"Today's battle was support for the empty-cells property". How did I not know this?
Instead of cluttering client sites with this kind of widget I’ve started adding a set of pages with information that helps the user resize text in their browser.
- Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » CSS 3: A Giant Serving Of FAIL alex.dojotoolkit.org · Archived on
- CSS Frameworks + CSS Reset: Design From Scratch | CSS smashingmagazine.com
A look at the idea behind CSS Frameworks, their advantages and disadvantages.
- Infovore » “What was with the pirates?” infovore.org
This Flickr support thread is a must-read if you’re interested in online communities, and in particular, how they change as they grow.
These tips are for kickstarting a low cost and high impact website, however some tips are general principals rather than recommendations for all cases.
- Are Big Ad Agencies So Clueless That Corporations Should Avoid Them? businessweek.com
I've been spending much time with ad agencies and focus groups lately and can only conclude that--with some exceptions--they are mostly clueless.
- ProtoScript - Main Page (Wiki) docs.protoscript.com
A simplified scripting language for creating Ajax style prototypes for the Web.
- nextthing.org » robots.txt Adventure nextthing.org
Great article following up on a robots.txt survey. The linked HTTP headers survey is amusing, too.
- About the Book - Designing Interfaces designinginterfaces.com
An intermediate-level book about interface and interaction design, structured as a pattern language.
- ActsAsUndoable | Javascript nodetraveller.com
- curl.js (with IE 6/7 support) netzgesta.de
curl.js 1.0 allows you to add an page curl effect (inc. backside mask) to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.
"This is an effort to make an easy and simple way to blend the accessibility of html with the animation of flash. JavaScript is then used as the bridge to communicate between the two." Just a proof of concept at the moment.
- Digital Web Magazine - Contract Killers digital-web.com
The tricky situation of quoting for web design and development projects, and the various types of contracts you can agree upon.
Variations in the alignment of input fields, their respective labels, calls to action, and their surrounding visual elements can support or impair different aspects of user behavior.
"My attempt to disentangle and examine the topic of "Internet platform" in detail. I will go at it by identifying three distinct approaches to providing an Internet platform, and project forward on where I think each of the three approaches will go."
- jQuery UI: Widgets, Components, and Interactions ui.jquery.com
A set of themable widgets and interactions, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications.
- How to create an unobtrusive print this page link with JavaScript | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com · Archived on
It is very unusual to see print links implemented in an unobtrusive way, so here is how to do that.
Web Safe Typography on Screen for Pixel Perfectionists
- Satisfaction - People-Powered Customer Service getsatisfaction.com
People-powered customer service for absolutely everything.
- 10 colour contrast checking tools to improve the accessibility of your design | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Plus some useful general information on contrast issues.
File inputs are the bane of beautiful form design. [...] This simple, three-part progressive enhancement provides the markup, CSS, and JavaScript to address the long-standing irritation.
- The Identity Corner » The problem(s) with OpenID idcorner.org
Comprehensive listing of problems with OpenID. FUD? Not FUD? Couldn't say myself but author competes in that space. OpenID + Passwordmaker.org is working well for me.
- Eric's Archived Thoughts: Diagnostic Styling meyerweb.com
The primary goal here is to have a set of rules that can be applied during the development phase of a new layout. These rules’ aim is to visually highlight problems in the markup.
- Managing Humans - An Introduction managinghumans.com
This book isn't just about management, it's about creating places where people can comfortably build stuff.
- AssistiveWare - Videos on computer accessibility assistiveware.com
Marie-France has Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) [...] Marie-France uses SwitchXS to access her computer, KeyStrokes for word prediction and Proloquo for communication.
- The wiki way | Technology | Guardian Unlimited guardian.co.uk
Don Tapscott, the author of an eye-opening new book called Wikinomics, says that we have barely begun to imagine how the internet will change the way we live and work.
- CoScripter services.alphaworks.ibm.com
A system for recording, automating, and sharing processes performed in a web browser such as printing photos online, requesting a vacation hold for postal mail, or checking bank account information.
- Graphic Design Blog » Wordpress as a CMS graphicdesignblog.co.uk