Tag: css
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…