2007 Web Development Predictions
The standardistas were abuzz a year ago with hopeful predictions for the coming year. Visions of sugar plums dropping rounded corners, AJAX, and alpha transparent pngs danced through their heads. 2006...
View ArticleAdd accessibility to your AJAX applications
In December, I made a number of predictions for the 2007. I confidently predicted that Gez Lemon would discover a solution to AJAX accessibility issues. Gez had earlier defined the virtual buffer’s...
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Aggregate RSS from all over the web with Yahoo! Pipes
Yahoo! has been thriving on hacks. It’s quarterly Hack Days have given engineers the opportunity to build radical and sometimes silly alterations of existing services. Once in a while, these hacks are...
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Browser wars get the star geek treatment
The Web Sig in the Silicon Valley is putting together a very impressive meeting at the end of the month. Browser Wars, it’s a spoof of Star Wars and the dreaded browser wars of the 90′s. I’m the first...
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Take the pain out of CSS-based layouts
I hate dealing with CSS-based layouts. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying I’d rather use tables. It’s just that I don’t relish the idea of fussing with the hacks, negative margins, floats, and more to...
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Storyboard your DHTML interactions
Bill Scott gave an interesting lecture today at Yahoo! about AJAX design patterns. He explained how good AJAX designs keep the user’s attention on the page, remove roadblocks, and increase stickiness...
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Yahoo! Music – Easy, semantic, unobtrusive music badges
Let’s say you want to link to a song on the internet. Let’s also say that you want your users to easily listen to that music. Further, let’s say you want people to find and enjoy the music without...
View ArticleProgressive enhancement of links using the CSS attribute selector
Attribute Selector Test Page We have avoided using CSS3 rules for too long. It’s been difficult to justify using rules that won’t work for a significant portion of our audience, Internet Explorer 7 and...
View ArticleARIA support with the YUI library
AJAX and DHTML have made web sites more interactive and easier to use. At least for visitors who are not using a screen reader. Screen reader users have to struggle with pages that lose focus, change...
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Best Practices for Creating JavaScript
I’m on a mission to relearn JavaScript. My limited skills are from trying to shoehorn scripts into pages without completely understanding the theory. Christian Heilmann, a developer evangelist for...
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The resurrected AOL DHTML Style Guide
A long, long time ago the best keyboard style guide was published on the AOL Developer channel. I was searching for it this weekend and discovered it had been deleted years ago. I’m posting a version...
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