Tag: css

  • CSS Selector Browser Support

    As many web developers know, CSS support is highly varied amongst browsers. I often find myself hunting for which selectors are more heavily supported. As such, I thought I’d post a direct link to a quality resource here so I wouldn’t have to hunt anywhere besides on BorkWeb. Here’s some decent resources: CSS selector and…

  • Luminis: Forcing CSS/JavaScript Updates to Clients

    [[innerindex]] Introduction I gave a talk at SunGard Summit in Anaheim this spring on Plymouth State‘s portal (myPlymouth). There were a number of really great questions that came up following my presentation, one of which is the topic of this post: “How do you force a client’s browser to always use the correct version of…

  • Faster Page Loads With Image Concatenation

    [[innerindex]] Introduction When designing web applications, icons and images are used to enhance the user experience, give visual cues, and simply look sexy. For complex web apps, the quantity and resulting latency of icons and images used can greatly impact page load times…and developers, in most cases, generally try to reduce page load time with…

  • The Ajax Experience: Plan of Attack

    The Ajax Experience is next Monday (although I arrive Sunday afternoon) through Wednesday and I’ve prepared my plan of attack: Monday 10:00am-11:30am: Leveraging Ajax for Enterprise Application Development – Conrad Damon 12:30pm-1:15pm: Keynote: Towards a Service-Oriented Applications Stack – Matt Quinn 1:30pm-3:00pm: Simplify Ajax development with Apache XAP – Bob Buffone 3:30pm-5:00pm: Ruining the User…

  • Learning What I Know

    I recently received an e-mail from one of my subscribers that asked a question. The answer may be useful to some so I’m placing it here. The original question It seems so interesting developing websites application these days, thanks to the web 2.0 phenomena. I can’t call myself a web developer or anything near that,…

  • Site Redesign

    It was high time I re-design BorkWeb. I’ve been screwing around with this design for a few weeks now and I’ve finally got it working for go-live today :D I began construction on the site using LifeAfterCoffee’s Caffeine Theme. Jon did a great job in structuring the templates and a fairly solid CSS stylesheet. However,…

  • Slashdot Redesign

    Last month Slashdot held a very open-ended competition for a redesign of the long overdue layout. I had initially thought I’d enter but laziness took the best of me and I never completed my design. The winner was Alex Bendicken who created a pretty clean and snazzy design. CmdrTaco estimates that the new design will…

  • CSS Declaration Grabber Regular Expression

    I use the same tools for development as Zach over at NoSheep. EditPlus is a sexy editor with all its FTP goodness, and packaged along with it are a number of syntax definitions for various languages as well as regular expressions for grabbing function declarations for those languages. Whats so cool about EditPlus and those…

  • Oooo event:Selectors for Prototype

    My article on the Separation of Layout and Logic touched on a key point of heavy Javascript use in an Ajax rich environment…the need for separation of Javascript code – namely events – from the HTML. Behaviour was my suggested CSS/Javascript event selector framework. Behaviour is a stand-alone event framework. You can use it regardless…

  • Ajax; Templating; and the Separation of Layout and Logic

    [[innerindex]] The Background I have often mentioned my process of expanding my proficiency of Ajax. Through my journey I have made a number of wrong turns and hit my share of stumbling blocks. All of that has been a learning experience and I’m learning still. I began fiddling with XMLHttpRequest as many do – blissfully…

  • 20 CSS Tips and Tricks

    Pete Freitag as generated a list of 20 CSS Tips and Tricks. Definately some useful stuff in there! Rounded Corners Rounded Corners without images Creating a Netflix style star ratings Tableless forms Styling Lists with CSS 2 Column Layout Technique 3 Column Layout with CSS 3 Column Fixed width centered layout Printing with CSS Adding…

  • Slashdot Getting a Face Lift

    Finally! I have been frequenting Slashdot for quite a few years now and the current layout…well…sucks. I have often remarked to my friends that the geek news site really needed a new look. You see, I wouldn’t consider myself a super graphic designer or artsy person but I know what I like. I’m somewhat critical…