October 29, 2010
Getting Started with jQuery Mobile
Yesterday I had a chance to get my feet wet with the Alpha 1 release of jQuery Mobile for one of my clients. Prior to yesterday I had been working with jqTouch for mobile UI.
July 21, 2010
Cross Domain Data Theft using CSS
FireFox (3.6.7) released today fixed an interesting security vulnerability called Cross Domain Data Theft using CSS discovered by Google security researcher Chris Evans.
October 28, 2008
Web Design Tips for Programmers
I found a good article on dzone today titled Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design. The title is actually misleading, rather than focus on the why, it will actually help you create some better looking pages.I've often wanted to write a blog entry about the same topic.
December 05, 2006
CSSDocs.org Launched
I have just launched another documentation shortcut site, this time for CSS: cssdocs.org. It allows you to get to CSS documentation from the url, for instance type in: cssdocs.org/text-decoration to go to the W3C documentation for the text-decoration property.
December 04, 2006
Interview with Christopher Schmitt author of the CSS Cookbook
I recently had a chance to conduct an interview with Christopher Schmitt, author of the CSS Cookbook from O'Reilly, among other books. Chris recently released a second edition of the CSS Cookbook which he updated for IE 7, and Firefox 1.5.
November 09, 2006
Styling Blockquotes with CSS Psudo Elements
Have you ever wanted to add big quotation marks to your blockquote automatically? There is a really slick way you can do this with just CSS using the :before and :after psudo elements.
June 07, 2006
CSS Uppercase / All Caps
Need to know how to make text all uppercase or in all caps with CSS? Add the following to your CSS stylesheet:div.uppercase { text-transform: uppercase; }
That will take all the letters and capitalize them.
March 06, 2006
Styling input based on their type with CSS
A few weeks ago I posted how I style forms with CSS. Here's another trick that could be used with that technique.Suppose your creating a form with a couple text fields and a submit button.
January 11, 2006
Styling Your forms with CSS and Labels
I had a comment asking about styling forms using CSS with the label tag in my last blog entry, so I thought I would write another post to show an example.
December 13, 2005
AJAX Tutorial with Prototype
Here's the AJAX prototype example that I used in my AJAX presentation today.I wanted to give an example of a good use of AJAX, and at the same time keep it simple. So I thought a good example
would be to build a zip code verifier.
September 22, 2005
CSS Techniques Roundup - 20 CSS Tips and Tricks
I never cease to be amazed at what problems can be solved with pure CSS.
September 01, 2005
Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers
Lets face it, unless you have a photographic memory, no developer can remember all the different functions, options, tags, etc. that exist. Documentation can be cumbersome at times, thats why I like cheat sheets.
June 08, 2005
Adding an XSL StyleSheet to your RSS Feed
Evagoras Charalambous saw my article Adding a CSS StyleSheet to your RSS Feed and was inspired to create an article called Improving an XML feed display through CSS and XSLT.The CSS technique I use is easy to implement, and looks pretty good.
April 14, 2005
Web Standards Browser Test
The Web Standards Project has a new web standards test for browsers called the Acid2 test. No web browsers can currently pass the test. Here's what Firefox (1.0.
March 25, 2005
Engineering CSS
I have a bachelors degree in Software Engineering, which is quite different from computer science, which most people assume was my degree.
February 02, 2005
Adding a CSS StyleSheet to your RSS Feed
It's pretty easy to add a CSS stylesheet to your RSS feeds. I created one in about 10 minutes for my RSS feed. You can do a lot more with an XSL stylesheet (turn links into clickable links, etc), but CSS can make your feed look much less scary for the non-technical crowd.
