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Media Query library
By Benjamin Joffe · Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2
Created by Opera's Benjamin Joffe, this rather useful little library allows you to detect the media capabilities of the browser/device setup being used to view your site. Read more…
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Styling Forms with Attribute Selectors - Part 1
By Christopher Schmitt · Thursday, October 25, 2007 3
This is an exciting article, marking the first of a multiple part series by renowned CSS author Christopher Schmitt that explores modern CSS design techniques, mainly focused around implementing CSS3 techniques that gracefully degrade if browser support is not there. This particular article covers attribute selectors. Read more…
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Semantic HTML and Search Engine Optimization
By Joost de Valk · Thursday, October 25, 2007 23
Following on from his last article on optimizing your site structure to improve SEO, Joost de Valk now turns his attention to improving SEO further through the use of good semantic HTML. Read more…
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Blob Sallad – canvas tag and JavaScript physics simulation experiment
By Björn Lindberg · Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2
Blob Sallad is a fun little experiment put together to show some of the capabilities of the HTML5 canvas element, when combined with some JavaScript physics simulation. You can play with it at http://blobsallad.se/, and read about how it works in this exclusive double-length article, written by its creator, Björn Lindberg. Read more…
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Intelligent site structure for better SEO!
By Joost de Valk · Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7
Today's web is becoming increasingly more competitive, so it is very important to make you web site as discoverable as possible. But how do you get it to appear higher in search rankings? In this article, SEO specialist Joost de Valk shows you that there is an art to structuring your site so that it will be ranked higher. Read more…
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An HTML5-style "Google Suggest"
By Anne van Kesteren · Thursday, October 11, 2007 5
This article is an exploration of some HTML5 form features - input, datalist and external data sources - along with some nifty server-side code to help create an intelligent auto-complete form field, a la Google Suggest, in very few lines of code. Read more…
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jQuery: Write less, do more
By Hans S. Tømmerholt · Monday, October 8, 2007 6
This article describes the basic workings of jQuery and how you can use it to simplify your JavaScript work. The toolkit has a powerful selection mechanism and can apply changes to a series of elements at the same time. jQuery has several convenience methods for event handling, AJAX and animations. At the same time, the toolkit is small in size and very extensible through user created plugins. Read more…
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Introduction to JavaScript toolkits
By Hans S. Tømmerholt · Monday, October 8, 2007 3
This is the introductory article in a series of articles covering some of the most popular JavaScript toolkits. It gives an introduction to JavaScript toolkits and what they do in general, plus a comparison of the libraries covered in later articles, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. When the series is finished we'll have covered jQuery, YUI, MochiKit, Dojo, MooTools, Prototype, Ext and possibly some others too - keep checking back for updates, and let us know if there are any specific toolkits you'd like to see covered! Read more…