Archive for the 'code' Category

March 5 2008

Internet Explorer 8 “activities”

Activities: Microsoft’s version of microformats? They’re awfully similar & require no work for the developer. The downside? HTML documents will continue to lack the rich markup that microformats offer. We can continue using microformats to mark up our documents of course, but I wonder if this will stagnate their growth.

February 27 2008

SWFObject, External Interface, Internet Explorer

Just a tip. If you’re ever using SWFObject to write out your flash files and ExternalInterface to communicate with them, in Internet Explorer (6 & 7), make sure that the ID of your embedded flash file is all lowercase.
Take this basic code for example, used to mute the audio in a flash file from within […]

December 18 2007

jQuery Tool Tips, For & By a Javascript Noob

I’ve recently been using, and falling in love with, a Javascript library you’ve probably heard of - jQuery. So when I needed Tool Tip functionality for a project, the one thing I was sure about was that jQuery was the way to go. I tried writing some things myself and didn’t like the results. Then […]

May 31 2007

Simple Navigation with CSS Image Replacement

No silly javascript, no crazy coding, no waiting for images to load. Just some good old fashioned HTML, CSS, and a single image. Once you do this, you’ll never make your web site navigation any other way.
Warning: If you aren’t into front-end coding for the web, you may want to skip this. For […]

December 7 2006

Replace Your Logo! CSS Image Replacement

This technique has been around for so long, but still too many people are not using it. It’s one of the easiest first steps you need to take toward making your sites semantically correct and search engine friendly (see the final result in action).
Never, ever, put a company logo as a straight up image […]

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