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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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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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Fixing YUI CSS grid issues with JavaScript and the DOM
By Christian Heilmann · Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1
In Christian Heilmann's second article (http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/progressive-enhancement-and-the-yahoo-u/), he went through the basics creating a valid and sturdy HTML template and how to create layouts using the YUI CSS Grids. This time he’ll show how to use the JavaScript Dom component to work around common problems of CSS layouts. Read more…
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Improving the usability of within-page links
By Bruce Lawson · Thursday, November 15, 2007 0
This article uses a combination of simple techniques to improve the usability of in-page links with some CSS3, an animated GIF, cunning JavaScript, and some invalid HTML (for Internet Explorer)! Read more…
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Starting with a sound structure – predictable HTML layouts using the YUI
By Christian Heilmann · Thursday, November 15, 2007 1
In Christian Heilmann's first article (http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/progressive-enhancement-and-the-yahoo-u/), he went through the basics of progressive enhancement and how the Yahoo YUI helps to facilitate it (along with a rundown of the major parts of the YUI and what they do.) In this article he heads right on to the basis of any good site - a sound markup structure - and shows how YUI can make HTML painless and easy. Read more…
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A call for video on the web - Opera <video> release on Labs
By Opera Software · Wednesday, November 7, 2007 14
To really make a splash on the Web, video needs an open solution that can easily be integrated into web pages without the need for proprietary plugins. The HTML 5 <video> element and Ogg Theora can provide this, and Opera is proud to announce an experimental build that suppports it. So read this article, and download and play with it today. Read more…
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Safe media queries
By Opera Software · Wednesday, November 7, 2007 6
Media queries have mixed support across browsers, with some browsers offering full support, some browsers ignoring them because they don't understand them, and - worse - some browsers incorrectly interpreting them. It's not always consistent either, so how do you use them safely? This article explains how. Read more…
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Why I Love ECMAScript 4: Real Decimals
By Chris Pine · Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1
Have you ever noticed how calculations involving floating point numbers in JavaScript and other languages can sometimes turn out inaccurately, due to it's use of Binary floats? ECMAScript 4 fixes this by allowing us to use real decimals if desired - in this article, Chris Pine explores the topic. Read more…