Articles Tagged with JavaScript
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- Is Manipulating the DOM for Presentation Acceptable?
- Is manipulating the DOM to include extra markup needed to desired design elements acceptable?
- Typography in Headings: sIFR? Image Replacement?
- While sIFR has garnered quite a bit of attention and support, I have yet to see it implemented all that often. Is CSS based image replacement preferred?
- Applying Progressive Enhancement to Your CSS
- It is becoming more common for designers to neglect progressive enhancement once unobtrusive JavaScript is obtained. There are countless JavaScript libraries available, full of code that is designed with progressive enhancement in mind. The issue that’s becoming increasingly problematic, in my opinion, is the associated style that is required to achieve desired visual effects.
- Suckerfish HoverLightbox Redux
- When the original Suckerfish HoverLightbox was published, I was honestly surprised at the amount of attention it received. I was a fan of the technique, and I was also really glad that many people took the time to read the entire article instead of just playing with the demo and move on. One thing I was disappointed in, however, was the lack of attention to detail on my part in the demo and examples provided. Most of my time was put into testing the technique and determining if it was useful. I have been meaning to revisit the technique and take another look at it, and recently I was able to do so.
- Crop & Resize with JavaScript, PHP, and ImageMagick
- This demo was put together in an effort to make very basic image editing easier for less technically inclined users. The main intention is to provided it as a component to include in a variety of applications including custom content management systems or Web applications.
- DOM Scripting - Book Review
- DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith is a great resource for any Web designer/developer.
- The Best Browser Extensions for Web Development
- The Web Developer Extension and Firebug extension have proved to be most valuable to me when developing for the Web. Here’s an account of the features I find myself using every day in hopes that I can pass some information along to those who may not make use of these features.
- Flash, JavaScript, and Providing Alternative Content
- Providing alternate content is becoming increasingly important given the rapid advancement in Web technologies. Take the extra step and provide graceful degradation for your applicable content.
- Book Review: Sams JavaScript
- If you haven’t ever come across any of the books in the Sams Teach Yourself <Insert Technology> in 24 Hours, the idea behind them is this: Each chapter can be read in one hour, and there are 24 chapters in the book. Therefore you can theoretically complete the book in a total of 24 hours. While some people may be misled into thinking that they’ll learn what they want in a day, it’s really just a clever gimmick — and for the most part, it works.
- Introducing MBN DuoTone Headings
- One thing that JavaScript is absolutely great for is enhancing the average browsing experience for your user. On the other hand, requiring the presence of JavaScript compatibility can be an utter disaster. In my opinion, JavaScript is great for visual or functional enhancements, but those features should not be necessary to make proper use of any particular document. If a user doesn’t arrive equipped with the ability to run JavaScript, they shouldn’t know they’re missing out on anything.
