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The Opera 10 experience
By Chris Mills · Tuesday, September 1, 2009 5
This article gives you the low down on Opera 10's new features and standards support.Showcases in the article make use of Web Fonts, RGBA/HSLA colours, Selectors API, CSS 3 selectors, HTML 5 contenteditable and more. It also looks at Opera 10's new user interface and Opera Dragonfly features. Read more…
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Seven Web Fonts showcases
By Chris Mills · Tuesday, September 1, 2009 10
This article presents some all-new Web Fonts showcases, written by the Opera developer relations team, to educate and inspire you! Check them out, and feel free to download and reuse the code. Read more…
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Color in Opera 10 — HSL, RGB and Alpha Transparency
By Molly E. Holzschlag · Tuesday, September 1, 2009 2
This guide explains how the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) and HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) color models work, and how web designers can make clever use of them in CSS to improve their designs, and make more logical color scheme choices. It also looks at the alpha channel, and how that can also be beneficial. Read more…
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Styling and extracting hCalendar
By Christopher Schmitt · Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5
In this article, Christopher Schmitt gives you the lowdown on the hCalendar microformat including the HTML syntax, styling the calendar in a visually satisfying way, and using the Technorati Events Feed service to allow a user to export the hCalendar data directly to their calendar application quickly and easily. Read more…
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The freelancing business part 3: scheduling your projects
By R Blank · Thursday, August 6, 2009 9
In this - the third article of his series on the business of software development - R Blank lifts the lid on scheduling with a detailed look at creating task- and resource- based project plans, buffering in case unexpected surprises crop up, and more. Read more…
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Keyboard accessibility in web applications: part 3
By Mihai Sucan · Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2
In the final part of his three-part series on keyboard accessibility, Mihai Sucan looks at how to deal with the cross-browser difficulties that arise when dealing with keyboard events. Read more…
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Keyboard accessibility in web applications: part 2
By Mihai Sucan · Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1
In this article (the second part of his three part series on making complex web applications keyboard-accessible) Mihai Sucan builds on the work already done on adding keyboard shortcuts for drawing tools in his paint application. Here he shows you how to add full mouse keys support so that a virtual mouse pointer can be controlled by the keyboard; this allows full control of the application without using a mouse. Read more…
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Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA
By Gez Lemon · Wednesday, July 8, 2009 2
There is increasing interest in, and importance being laid upon, making modern dynamic web applications more accessible. New specifications such as WAI-ARIA and HTML 5 provide the means by which to do this; in this article Gez Lemon presents a solution for implementing accessible drag and drop functionality using JavaScript and WAI-ARIA. Some discussion of HTML 5 drag and drop features is also included for good measure. Read more…