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Microformat Encoding and Visualization
By Brian Suda · Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8
Adding Microformats to your markup is great for adding semantic value, and then performing tasks like pulling out hCards and adding them to address books, but is that all there is to them? Certainly not! In this article, Brian Suda shares some ideas for doing so much more with them. Read more…
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Server-side capability detection for mobile devices part 2
By Brian Suda · Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1
Coding with web standards ensures that most devices should be able to make use of your web sites, but you can take this further, using server-side capability detection methods to maximize the experience on each device you serve your pages to, in terms of variables like location and language. In this article, Brian Suda explores some of these methods. Read more…
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Styling Forms with Attribute Selectors - Part 2: adding in some CSS3
By Christopher Schmitt · Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1
In the first part of this article, Christopher Schmitt talked about effective form styling using attribute selectors; now in part 2 he continues his exploration using CSS3 selectors to style enabled, disabled or checked form controls. Read more…
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JSON Configuration for JavaScript
By Gareth Rushgrove · Thursday, December 6, 2007 8
If you're working in a web development team with developers alongside designers, and you want to give the designers an easy way to change the variable parts of the application without the risk of breaking things, an external configuration file is a great idea, and JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a perfect format in which to store this data. In this article, Gareth Rushgrove shows you how. Read more…
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Server-side capability detection for mobile devices part 1
By Brian Suda · Thursday, December 6, 2007 1
Coding with web standards ensures that all web-enabled devices should be able to make use of your web sites, but you can take this further, using server-side capability detection methods to maximize the experience on each device you serve your pages to, in terms of variables like location and language. In this article, Brian Suda explores some of these methods. This is part 1, covering HTTP headers, mobile-specific headers and browser user agent strings ; part 2, which covers some specific capability detection code techniques, will follow next week. Read more…
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Mobile Ajax And The Frost Ajax Library
By Rocco Georgi · Wednesday, December 5, 2007 1
Mobile Ajax is one of the most talked about subjects in the mobile web, with vastly differing browser/handset capabilities making it difficult to ensure that your JavaScript/Ajax functionality will provide a consistant acceptable user experience. So how to we combat this? In this article Rocco Georgi shows you how. Read more…
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Web design with Opera Mobile in mind
By Chris Mills · Thursday, November 29, 2007 43
Opera Mobile is a fully featured web browser and has pretty much the same standards support as the full Opera desktop version, but how do you ensure that your web sites will give your users a good experience on Opera Mobile as well as desktop browsers? This article shows you how. Read more…
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SVG at the movies, take 2 - exploring SVG video
By Chris Mills · Thursday, November 29, 2007 0
The triumvirate is now complete - we released a Windows version of our great new experimental Opera Kestrel HTML5 video/3D Canvas/SVG video build a couple of weeks ago along with an article about HTML5 video. Then Tim Johannson wrote an article about using the 3D canvas, which you'll find below. Now for the hatrick, Erik Dahlstrmmmmmm has written an article explaining how to use SVG Video. Read more…