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Keyboard accessibility in web applications: part 1
By Mihai Sucan · Wednesday, July 8, 2009 1
One of the most important features to implement on your web sites for ensuring accessibility is keyboard controls, but this gets rapidly more complicated when the complexity increases, and you start getting into scripted web applications. But help is at hand. In this detailed three part series, web developer Mihai Sucan offers a complete solution for providing keyboard accessibility to complex web applications, using his canvas-based painting application as a starting point. Read more…
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Custom web fonts with sIFR
By Jake Smith · Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4
Using custom fonts on web pages has long been a major sore point for web designers, but there are solutions available now and more on the horizon, from traditional image replacement techniques and Cufon, to CSS 3 Web Fonts and TypeKit. In this article design guru Jake Smith has a look at what's available, before giving you a tutorial on his current favourite solution - the rather clever Flash-based sIFR. Read more…
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Opera Unite developer's primer
By Hans S. Tømmerholt · Tuesday, June 16, 2009 33
Opera Unite puts a Web server inside your Opera browser, allowing you to share files and applications with your friends and colleagues directly off your hard drive! This tutorial shows you how to get started on the road to Opera Unite Service development by making a simple Opera Unite blog service. It introduces some of the basic ways of interacting with the web server and how to start creating Opera Unite Services. Read more…
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An introduction to Opera Unite
By Chris Mills · Tuesday, June 16, 2009 21
The time has come to raise the curtain on yet another exciting new Opera release. Opera Unite is a collaborative technology that uses a compact server inside the Opera desktop browser to share data and services. You can write applications - in the form of Opera Unite Services - that use this server to serve content to other Web users. In this article, Chris Mills explores the new features available under this groundbreaking new technology. Read more…
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Standards support in Opera Presto 2.2 and Opera 10 beta
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, June 3, 2009 9
This article details all the exciting new standards support and standards-related features available in the new Opera 10 beta. Dive in, install the beta, have a play around, and let us know what you think. Read more…
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Changes in Opera’s user agent string format
By Andreas Bovens · Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11
Andreas gives details on the recent changes to the user agent string of our upcoming Opera 10 release. Read more…
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Improving image maps with SVG and XSLT
By Frederik Elwert · Friday, May 15, 2009 2
In this article Frederik Elwert shows us how to create a cross-browser solution to enhance image maps involving XSLT and SVG. The map is made a lot more interactive and usable, and accessibility is also improved. Read more…
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Styling hReview Microformats
By Christopher Schmitt · Friday, May 8, 2009 21
In this article, Christopher Schmitt continues his Microformat series by looking at styling the hReview microformat. It includes a rather smart way of creating a flexible ratings system (one star to five, in increments of 0.5) using only CSS and some clever image overlaps. Read more…