#web (4,377 links)
- RNIB clear print guidelines rnib.org.uk
Guidelines on designing printed information that is accessible to people with sight problems.
The new roster - worth an estimated £9 million - combines Digital Media's previous Design and Development roster with the Interactive/Online Media Creative roster.
- deconcept › Web standards compliant Javascript Quicktime detect and embed blog.deconcept.com
Javascript file for doing detection and embedding QuickTime movies.
Cody's jQuery examples
- [brothercake] LoJAX brothercake.com
A re-creation of the window.XMLHttpRequest object, designed for low-specification and legacy browsers.
"A collection of plugins for jQuery java script library
"A growing set of Query powered script examples in "pagemod" format."
- jQuery Visual Documentation visualjquery.com
- Assembla home assembla.com
This is great. "Free team building, communication, trac, and subversion."
- Radiant CMS - Content Management Simplified radiantcms.com
A no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams.
- Why phishing catches punters | The Register theregister.co.uk
Scary. "If you haven't read Why Phishing Works (850Kb PDF) - written by Rachna Dhamija, J D Tygar, and Marti Hearst - stop what you're doing now and go get it (or at the very least, read a short summary of what it offers)."
"Sooner or later a client will ask you to design one of those ‘pretty looking email thingies’ for their own customers, and then what do you do?" Cry.
Many designers don’t think about the code behind the sites they design [...] The good news is designers don’t need to learn code; they just need to change the way they think.
In order to demonstrate how simple it is to use JQuery I have setup some examples using Chainablemethods and how one might architect the library in a web page
- 15 Days Of jQuery 15daysofjquery.com
If your project calls for AJAX or DOM scripting and you need it done quickly, with minimal fuss, and you believe in keeping things simple, then jQuery might be perfect for you.
A Flash traffic monitoring tool (similar to a hit counter) that tracks the performance of individual Flash content files (SWFs) no matter where they end up on the web.
A JavaScript class (Base.js) that I hope eases the pain of JavaScript OO. It’s a simple class and extends the Object object by adding two instance methods and one class method.
AJAX and its kin are empowering developers, but with great power comes great responsibility.
The key is to use scripting to add value for those who can take advantage of it without causing problems for those who, for whatever reason, cannot.
- James Mc Parlane's Blog - June 6th Is JavaScript 'Array' and 'Object.prototype' Awareness Day blog.metawrap.com · Archived on
We have to lay down some ground rules or JavaScript is going bring some serious issues to the next generation of 'Internet Applications'.
- hooray! it's Little Union! thegrandunion.com
Little Union is a name we’ve given to any self initiated work we do. Which in theory could be anything - might be good, might be bad, you live and learn I guess.
- QnECMS Content Mangement System | Accessible Content Management System: Quick and Easy (QnECMS) qnecms.co.uk
Quick & Easy Accessible CMS, Weblog and Podcasting Software.
- HTML: multiple select boxes or checkbox lists? krijnhoetmer.nl
Using <select multiple[="multiple"]> or a list with <input type="checkbox">s?
We design, manage and deliver profitable user experiences.
- Seth's Blog: What I learned from eye tracking sethgodin.typepad.com
The folks at etre were kind enough to do some eye tracking analysis of Squidoo [...] The blue dot shows you where the user is focusing her eyesite... it doesn't measure peripheral vision, which is crucial.
- WeBuilder 2006 - HTML editor, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, ASP, SSI, WML, Perl editor blumentals.net
Possible Topstyle replacement?
Bad ideas that get in the minds of standards-based developers
- XV: X Library Viewer cross-browser.com
X - a cross-browser DHTML javascript library
A useful link to pass around...
A simple mix of Javascript and CSS that makes it ridiculously easy to incorporate sidenotes into your web pages or blogs.
- Dogmas Are Meant to be Broken: An Interview with Eric Reiss - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com · Archived on
It’s not particularly spectacular, and it’s not the Ten Commandments. These are simply why users find [some] sites and devices less usable than others.
Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design. It converts size in pixels to relative em units, which are based on a text size.
- Strongest Links - Directory list strongestlinks.com
- CSS Tip - Add hover to nonlink elements in IE lawrence.ecorp.net
Ugly. "If I could show you how to extend the pseudo class hover in IE to work on all elements, would you be interested?"
- htaccess Generator cooletips.de
- The Guided Wireframe Narrative for Rich Internet Applications - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com · Archived on
Just as IA/UX/ID designers were settling into a comfortable working rhythm, the next step in the never-ending information architect’s challenge arrived: designing for rich internet applications (RIA).
- Juicy Studio: Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers juicystudio.com
The accessibility community is understandably concerned about the accessibility of client-side scripting, in particular using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) to produce Rich Internet Applications.
- Make a User Style Bookmarklet squarefree.com
- PHP Ecommerce software for a coder? | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
Modifiable out of the box ecommerce software recommendations for a coder, preferably PHP?
a group of developers, led by Joe Clark, that will publish corrections for, and extensions to, existing standards for Web accessibility. Our first area of interest is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, though we have not ruled out publishing er
- A List Apart: Articles: To Hell with WCAG 2 alistapart.com
"Where WCAG 2 breaks down is in the big stuff. Curiously, though, and perhaps due to meticulous editing over the years, the big stuff is well camouflaged and, to an uninformed reader, WCAG 2 seems reasonable. It isn’t, and you as a working standards-com
- rest/ahah - Microformats microformats.org
AHAH is a very simple technique for dynamically updating web pages using JavaScript. It involves using XMLHTTPRequest to retrieve (X)HTML fragments which are then inserted directly into the web page, whence they can be styled using CSS