PPK releases Browser detect 2.0 with many words of caution- July 26, 2006 Peter Paul Koch releases Browser detect 2.0 but with several words of caution, I hesitated for almost a day before publishing it. I'm afraid that amateur web developers will take the function and abuse it...There are legitimate uses of browser...http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000937.html Russ Weakley: Styling abbreviations and acronyms- July 25, 2006 Russ Weakley has updated his article Styling abbreviations and acronyms (See also this post sent to the Web Standards Group which is the basis for the article. This is a topic that occasionally confuses me and Russ's article does a...http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000936.html John Allsopp: Professionalism and Best Practice in Web Design and Development- July 25, 2006 In Professionalism and Best Practice in Web Design and Development, John Allsopp foreshadows a forthcoming detailed proposal for a set of best practices, A professional web designer and developer understands best practices in their field, among them the use of...http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000935.html ALA 220: Designing Through the Storm, Revision Control<br > Digital Web: Interview with Veerle Pieters- July 25, 2006 New in A List Apart Issue 220... Walter Stevenson's Designing Through the Storm offers suggestions on staying productive and creative, while from Digital Web's Assistant Managing Editor, Mike West, delivers I Wonder What This Button Does, an excellent piece on...http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000934.html Mastering Ajax, Maintainable JavaScript, Javascript libraries roundup- July 23, 2006 Via Digital Media Minute, IBM developerWorks presents a 5 part series by Brett McLaughlin on Mastering Ajax, Part I - Introduction to Ajax Part II - Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and Ajax Part III - Advanced requests and responses...http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000933.html 4 Cheat Sheets, 20 Pro Tips, 2 CSS Links <br >and 1 Piece Of Sage Advice- July 23, 2006 A few cheat sheets doing the rounds: RubyOnRails-Cheatsheet a web developers cheat sheet list Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers Blogging Cheatsheets for Blogger, TypePad, WordPress and Movable Type Meanwhile .net magazine (have you pop-up blocker enabled!)...http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000932.html Definition Lists and Semantic Mark Up- July 23, 2006 Recently Bruce Lawson declared that w3c specs are not the Word of God and makes this point about the <dl> element, people were using the humble <dl> for purposes that seem to me to be miles away semantically from the...http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000931.html John Allsopp responds to Dvorak on CSS- July 20, 2006 In Dvorak and CSS, John Allsopp delivers an excellent response to John Dvorak's recent critique of CSS, Dvorak's ignorant, largely incoherent trolling only bolsters the attitudes of those who hold out against adopting a technology that is well designed, works...http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000930.html Zeldman on the W3C's trajectory- July 18, 2006 Prompted by Bjoern Hoehrmann's reasons for leaving the W3C, Jeffrey Zeldman weighs in on the W3C's trajectory in An angry fix, Beholden to its corporate paymasters who alone can afford membership, the W3C seems increasingly detached from ordinary designers and...http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000929.html Garrett Dimon: From Comp to Page <br >Jeremy Keith: Using DOM Scripting to Plug the Holes in CSS- July 14, 2006 Garrett Dimon's My Process from Comp to Page presents a nice production methodology: Create a Reusable Framework Markup Open Browsers Write some CSS Validate Again Scripting Meanwhile, Via his DOM Scripting Blog, Jeremy Keith has made available the slides and...http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000928.html |