xocea

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just one person dreaming of a more logical, sustainable, and usable world

jQuery 1.2: jQuery.extend(”Awesome”)

Filed under: programming, web design — xocea at 3:28 pm on Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Via Digg: This is a massive new release of jQuery that’s been a long time in the making – and it’s ready for your consumption! New features, plugins, and plenty of documentation to soak up. more

Those Cross-Browser Blues

Filed under: programming, web design — xocea at 4:05 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Via Information Week: It’s no surprise that most of the cross-browser issues out there center on Microsoft(MSFT)’s Internet Explorer and the Mozilla browser family — mainly Firefox.

Love it or hate it — and let’s face it, most of us probably either hate it or manifest mere tolerance for it — Internet Explorer is here to stay, the way Windows itself is probably here to stay. According to the most recent W3Schools report, IE in all its incarnations commands about 58% of the browser usage pie, down from its high of 90% or more, but definitely still large enough to matter. read

Sexy Buttons With CSS

Filed under: programming, web design — xocea at 3:27 pm on Friday, July 20, 2007

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A Great PHP Code Achive

Filed under: programming — xocea at 4:04 pm on Monday, March 12, 2007

evilwalrus.gifEvil Walrus is an archive of PHP code snippets and articles, all user-contributed, tagged and searchable.

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Programming News: January 2007

Filed under: programming, web design — xocea at 6:45 pm on Tuesday, February 6, 2007

A Cool CSS Effect – Dashboard

Filed under: programming, ux, web design — xocea at 8:11 am on Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Via Dustin Bachrach: Ever want to alert your users to a really important message? Ever care to have some effect that looked like dasboard?

I wanted to do this for numerous sites so I finally I decided to scan the web for some resources. I didn’t find any real conclusive matches on Google. I mean what do you search for?

So, I started thinking about what we were actually doing and then finally I got code working. I’ll post the code and then briefly explain it. Here is a picture so you can get the idea of what it does, or you can simply go to my new website and click on either “About” or on “Contact.” READ

Say ‘NO’ To IE Hacks? I Wish!

Filed under: programming, ux, web design — xocea at 5:42 pm on Monday, January 8, 2007

Via Digg: No, this is not another Microsoft bashing tantrum, but a legitimate gripe that I believe could be easily resolved if only developers would take the right stance. Every serious web developer knows the trouble in creating websites that would render correctly in IE. Do some googling and you’ll turn up a lot of complaints from developers about Microsoft’s refusal to support standards, in particular CSS standards. However these same developers would create sites that implement non-standards compliant hacks so as to accommodate IE’s shortcomings. The logic generally being that IE commands most (as of this writing 86%) of the browser market so it would be “Insane” for a website not to “Support” it. Notice I quote the word Support, because websites aren’t supposed to be supporting browsers. Rather it should be the other way around, browsers should be supporting all websites by striving to correctly and completely implement standards. The demand for standards compliance isn’t a radical position to hold, without standards there would be no Internet as we’ve all come to know and love it. Without standards you wouldn’t be able to take your car to any auto shop and have parts replaced, you’ll have to take it to the original manufacturer and if you’re unlucky the parts in your manufacturer’s inventory wouldn’t be suited for your car because the manufacturing process itself isn’t standardized. To state succinctly, standards make our modern world go around.

The normal approach to solving this browser problem has been to promote the adoption of specific products such as Firefox by directly targeting users, but like any other problem, the problem of non-standards compliant browser usage must be tackled from its source, that source is the web developer who writes IE accommodating code. While I have my preference for which standard compliant browser is better, I will not promote any particular product here, as far I am concern, any standards compliant browser would suffice. In other words, anything but IE. Some people would argue that no browser is 100% standards compliant, that may be the case but any developer who has done cross browser testing knows that the difference between standard compliance in browsers such as Firefox/Opera and IE is equivalent to night and day. READ

JonDesign’s SmoothGallery 1.0

Filed under: programming, web design — xocea at 8:26 pm on Thursday, December 28, 2006

Via JonDesign: Using mootools v1.0, this javascript gallery and slideshow system allows you to have simple and smooth (cross-fading…) image galleries, slideshows, showcases and other cool stuff on your website. READ

AJAX For n00bs

Filed under: programming, web design — xocea at 8:13 pm on Thursday, December 28, 2006

Via hunlock.com: Take a look on the net and you’ll see endless pages of AJAX Frameworks: libraries which promise to do all the trivial and dirty AJAX work for you, leaving you free to code without actually understanding how the application you’re writing really works. So lets pull back the smoke and mirrors and see what AJAX is and why it’s just a simple evolution of client/server tricks Javascript programmers have been doing since the web was born. READ