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Articles tagged with JavaScript

  • Loving WebKit: The Web Inspector Redesign is Huge

    The freshly redesigned Web Inspector is a huge change for WebKit, and it’s making the engine that much better.

    Originally posted October 6th, 2008. 4 Comments

  • Improving Your Process: Maintaining Product Quality

    As a Web designer or developer, it’s important to make sure that your products remain top quality, regardless of any speed bumps you may encounter.

    Originally posted April 14th, 2008. 3 Comments

  • Comparing Safari 3.1 and Firefox 3 Beta 4

    I took a week to give Safari 3.1 a fair shot for Web development, here are my results.

    Originally posted March 24th, 2008. 17 Comments

  • Revisiting Progressive Enhancement in CSS

    John Resig recently posted a bit on progressive CSS enhancement, which got me thinking a bit more about a post I wrote some time ago.

    Originally posted March 17th, 2008. No Comments

  • Crop and Resize Images with GD or ImageMagick (v1.1)

    A new GD version has been released to complement the ImageMagick crop and resize with JavaScript and PHP. Crop and resize images from within your browser.

    Originally posted December 17th, 2007. 14 Comments

  • Web Standards Creativity Book Review

    Web Standards Creativity is a great book put together by 10 of the most known Web designers and developers in the industry.

    Originally posted November 5th, 2007. 4 Comments

  • Can we do Better than Dropdowns? Is there even a Problem?

    Are dropdown navigations on websites a usability nightmare? Is there a better way to implement a comprehensive site navigation?

    Originally posted October 29th, 2007. 10 Comments

  • Accelerated DOM Scripting Book Review

    What’s great about Accelerated DOM Scripting by Jonathan Snook, is that in the end, there is no doubt about it that JavaScript libraries aren’t what make the magic happen; the JavaScript does. I’m really thrilled to have read this book and absolutely recommend you add it to your library.

    Originally posted October 15th, 2007. 7 Comments

  • Selects, JavaScript, and Usability: Please help.

    Driver download interfaces drive me nuts. Attaching JavaScript functions to selects, in my opinion, is just plain wrong from a usability standpoint. How can we better improve this implementation that still finds its way to the Internet, on the largest of corporate websites?

    Originally posted October 1st, 2007. 9 Comments

  • Creating Named Elements in IE via JavaScript. Impossible?

    I was having a bit of an issue trying to create a new element via the DOM and provide it with a name. As it turns out, Internet Explorer doesn’t allow this to happen, but I was able to find an alternative solution that has worked out quite well.

    Originally posted September 24th, 2007. 6 Comments