CSS / JavaScript / HTML5
I’m going to come right out and say that it’s likely to take IE years before we see native HTML 5 support. However, that doesn’t mean we should ignore HTML 5 until IE gets with the program.
If you’ve tried to mess around with HTML 5 in IE, you may have noticed that the new elements do not work correctly with css. Luckily for us, we can use a tiny bit of Javascript to trick IE into rending the HTML 5 elements correctly.
As it turns out, Microsoft really doesn’t care about web standards at all. It has taken them way too many years to adopt the basics of CSS2 correctly. Now they are trying to expand that with IE8. However, developers still have to deal with the outdated IE6 and IE7. Using min-width is completely pointless unless your user base only uses good browsers. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve noticed that a lot of sites do not use tooltips as much as they should. There are many places on a site where tooltips would really be nice. One example of using them correctly is TheSixtyOne. They use a nice tooltip when you are about to bump a song up. It quickly lets you know how many points it will cost and how many times you have bumped it. This post will hopefully inspire at least one of you to use tooltips more often.
The solution I have decided to use is UniTip from Unit Interactive. I believe they have the best solution to quickly setting up tooltips. Download the zip they provide and we should be ready to go.
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If you have worked with AJAX at all, you know that there is this thing called the Same-Origin policy which makes it nearly impossible to send AJAX requests to 3rd party domains. There are workarounds such as going through a proxy. I don’t like that and think it’s messy. However, sometimes it’s the only way to go about getting the job done. This post is not about going through a proxy, instead, it is about using a little trick I learned from Yahoo. Read the rest of this entry »
It seems like every site these days uses some form of Ajax to validate form fields. One thing I cannot stand is websites that do not use Ajax to check usernames (or other data) as you type. Because a lot of sites are lacking this one feature, I thought it would be nice to throw together a few examples of how to do it correctly with the most popular of JS frameworks. Read the rest of this entry »