Archive for the 'Web Standards' Category
Viewing the DOM Source with Firefox
When working with the DOM it can be frustrating trying to visualize the difference in modified page structure the browser ultimately sees and the unmodified ‘View Source’ results. Enter Firefox’ ‘View DOM Source’ to save hours you of debugging.
Textpattern
Although I have no qualms with WordPress, I’ve always been very curious about Textpattern since it is made by the people who freely gifted “A Humane Web Text Generator” on the undeserving web.
Unobtrusive JavaScript Gems
A quick list of mostly unobtrusive ECMAScripts that have impressed me as I’ve been learning.
Non-standards compliant website design précis
Often when trying to evangelize web standards I use a friend’s non-compliant website to offer a comparison in methodologies. Recently I came across a bookmarklet that outlines deprecated or poor use of various HTML tags and tried it on his site. Josh is going to hate me for posting this screenshot, but I thought it […]
sorttable: Unobtrusive DHTML table sorting
sorttable from kryogenix.org is simply not to be missed.
Hopefully I’ve made that clear, now on to the installation instructions.
Include the JavaScript sorttable.js library Give your table a class of “sortable” Make sure your table has an id attribue Sprinkle a little CSS to taste
Holy crap and fan-fucking-tastic. Many thanks to Stuart Langridge for this wonderful piece of code.
sorttable: […]