CSS / JavaScript / HTML5
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 However, developers still have to deal with the outdated IE6 and IE7.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 »
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 »
A common problem with Flash is that it usually will not listen to the z-index of the page. This causes drop down navigation items to appear under the flash. However, there is a neat way to make flash behave correctly while respecting the XHTML standard. Read the rest of this entry »
One of the messiest things I have seen is the auto-generated code from Dreamweaver for rollover images. It got me thinking of ways to make the images swap without the need of Javascript. Instantly I thought CSS. It was actually fairly simple to get working. Read the rest of this entry »