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NYTimes Hand Codes
Posted by Robert on the 30th of April, 2008 at 8:01 AM GMT0. Permalink.Tags: Geek, HTML
For future reference, the NYTimes.com Art Director says (search for "Visual Consistency") they hand code their site. It still uses a loose DTD and table-based layout, but at least they aren't using DreamWeaver.
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Element Swapping with Unobtrusive JavaScript
Posted by Robert on the 10th of February, 2008 at 8:45 PM GMT0. Permalink.Tags: HTML, JavaScript, Web Standards
There may come a time when you need to show different content on one page based on a user-selected option. Here's a quick tutorial.
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WYMEditor HTML Textarea Loses Focus
Posted by Robert on the 24th of January, 2008 at 10:59 AM GMT0. Permalink.Tags: CSS, Geek, HTML, WYMEditor
I've been using the WYMEditor on a little content management system I've been building at work. I was having a problem where I couldn't edit in the HTML editor. Every time I clicked, the HTML textarea in WYMEditor would lose focus.
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Easier Image Replacement
Posted by Robert on the 24th of September, 2007 at 1:50 AM GMT0. Permalink.Tags: CSS, Geek, HTML, Web Design, Web Standards
If you didn't hear, text on a website is better than an image. Images have their place, but many people use images where text should be. In recent times, people have been using a technique called image replacement to replace text with an image. Typically, there are crazy hacks that involve embedded elements, but there is an easier way.
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iPod Touch Pushing the Mobile Web
Posted by Robert on the 14th of September, 2007 at 12:25 PM GMT0. Permalink.Tags: Apple, Hardware, HTML, iPhone, iPod, Phones, Web Standards, WebKit
As most know, Apple released a new line up of iPods, and possibly a major improvement for the mobile web.
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iUI Makes iPhone Development Easier
Posted by Robert on the 17th of August, 2007 at 9:49 AM GMT0. Permalink.Tags: Ajax, HTML, iPhone, JavaScript, Phones
The iPhone was a little less exciting when Apple revealed that web apps were the only way developers could write applications for the iPhone. While committed folks eventually opened the phone up for third-party applications, some interesting stuff was happening on the web application front. It's called iUI.
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So Long KHTML, Long Live WebKit
Posted by Robert on the 23rd of July, 2007 at 9:51 PM GMT0. Permalink.Tags: Browsers, Geek, HTML, Safari, Web Design, WebKit
Once upon a time, there was KHTML, The K Desktop Environment's Hypertext Markup Language rendering engine. Later, Apple decided to write a web browser. For whatever reason, Apple embraced KHTML, forked it, and created WebKit. There was much pleasure and much gnashing of teeth.
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Easy Clearing Of Floats
Posted by Robert on the 24th of April, 2007 at 5:14 PM GMT0. Permalink.Tags: CSS, HTML, Web Design, Web Standards
Web standards designers often need to make use of display:float to handle things like columns, navigation lists, and more. Usually these floats are followed by something like <div style="clear:both"></div>. It turns out there is an easier way.
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HTML 5: WHATWG versus W3C
Posted by Robert on the 8th of March, 2007 at 12:27 PM GMT0. Permalink.Tags: Geek, HTML, W3C, Web Standards, WHATWG
The new W3C HTML working group launched. The charter states that they'll attempt convergence with the WHATWG's recommendation. I remain a little confused with how the browser vendors will handle this.
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How To Do Modern Web Design
Posted by Robert on the 11th of January, 2007 at 6:42 PM GMT0. Permalink.Tags: Accessibility, CSS, Geek, HTML, Web Design, Web Standards
I've been trying to figure out the best way to explain how to do modern, semantic, standards compliant web design. I've been trying to make the point to my current protege that one should first look at a website like a term paper and move on from there. I've formulated a method now that I'd like to outline.
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Markup Not Safe For Work Content
Posted by Robert on the 29th of December, 2006 at 11:39 AM GMT0. Permalink.Tags: Geek, HTML, Microformats, Web Standards
Some guy named PJ Doland suggested we use rel="NSFW" to markup content that is NSFW.
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The Great MIME-Type Swindle
Posted by Robert on the 19th of November, 2006 at 3:06 PM GMT0. Permalink.Tags: Geek, HTML, W3C, Web Design, Web Standards, XHTML
It's a really old subject, but I haven't said my piece on the XHTML 1.0 versus HTML 4.01 debate. While commenting on Roger Johansson's blog, 456 Berea Street, I said a little bit about what I think. I figured I ought to go ahead and say my fill.
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W3C Listens, Incremental Update to HTML On The Way
Posted by Robert on the 28th of October, 2006 at 2:43 PM GMT0. Permalink.Tags: Geek, HTML, W3C, Web Design, Web Standards
Surprisingly, SlashDot scooped all the web design websites I normally read on Tim Berners-Lee's announcement that HTML will be incrementally updated (as well as things such as the W3C's HTML validator)
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