#web (4,377 links)
- XHTML Validator to RSS : Ben Hammersley benhammersley.com
Just as people don’t get design, they don’t usually get Web content either.
- Print Style Sheets and Dynamic Expressions @ The Autistic Cuckoo autisticcuckoo.net
Good timing. Check HO site.
- Daring Fireball: Markdown daringfireball.net
A text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.
"Only by following [W3C]guidelines can Web developers ensure the maximum return on investment for Web site development. " Reasonable overview, but not entirely happy with some points
- as simple as possible, but no simpler: DHTML Leaks Like a Sieve jgwebber.blogspot.com
The problem is not JavaScript. Nor is it really the DOM. It is the interface between the two.
(as far as I can tell) modern-day browsers just don’t have any way to extract that [semantic] information and display it to the user.
- W3C Semantic data extractor w3.org
This tool, geared by an XSLT stylesheet, tries to extract some information from a HTML semantic rich document.
Don’t write a functional specifications document. Why? Well, there’s nothing functional about a functional specifications document.
- tantek/log/2004/09 tantek.com
Undoing html.css and using debug scaffolding
- CSS Image Maps frankmanno.com
sample image map that's built entirely using CSS and XHTML.
- ActiveWidgets :: Professional JavaScript GUI tools activewidgets.com
Why image based charts are bad and what you can do about it.
- Ruby on Rails rubyonrails.org
A full-stack, open-source web framework in Ruby for writing real-world applications
- Redesign Watch meyerweb.com
A listing of notable standards-oriented redesigns.
CSS2 and CSS3 brought with them a host of new selector specifications, designed to allow greater access to the elements and parts of those elements that make up each and every webpage.
First edition, published February 1998 by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, O'Reilly
- Adactio: Journal - JavaScript slideshow adactio.com
A simple little animation that responds to mouseovers in a list of links.
- Gov.uk web sites get thumbs up for usability | The Register theregister.co.uk
Refers to new report (tagged "precedent")
- alt tags ‽ The Accessibility Challenge: Accessibility, Usability and Web Standards alttags.org · Archived on
The goal of accessibility faced multiple challenges, all which are part of a bigger challenge
- JavaScript Triggers: A List Apart alistapart.com
- Precedent | report details precedent.co.uk
Third Annual Report into Key Government Web sites
- LukeW: Web Application Form Design lukew.com
Very, very useful. "Not all Web applications use forms consistently. 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."
- Color Palette Generator creatimation.net
- The Man in Blue > Experiments > widgEditor themaninblue.com
An easily installed, easily customisable WYSIWYG editor for simple content. It replaces existing textareas with an improved editing pane using JavaScript
- Slashdot | What is JSON, JSON-RPC and JSON-RPC-Java? developers.slashdot.org
- User Styles: example rules for user style sheets squarefree.com
Betsie-alike user stylesheet: http://www.message.uk.com/css/betsie_v02.css
- Juicy Studio: ECMAScript Menu System juicystudio.com
To illustrate using a completely separate behavioural layer, I'll demonstrate a collapsible menu system. All of the examples are HTML, but work equally well as XHTML.
- The perils of using XHTML properly | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
- Digital Web Magazine - Accessibility From The Ground Up digital-web.com
Next year, the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative will release Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.