Nathan Smith, himself no slouch when it comes to things webby, is recommending a new book by Paul Haine entitled HTML Mastery. If the title and premise are anything to go by this, as Nathan rightly says should be required reading for everyone involved in building websites. You see, it all comes down to the… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Once you pop
There’s been another little development over at the Performer academy. If you want to create popup windows (yes, Popups Are Bad, I know) then you can now do so in an unobtrusive way using Performer. Because I realise that the prototype framework that Performer runs on is quite large (over 30Kb event when compressed and… Read more »
CSS positioning
Bored? Take a look here at all you’ll ever need to know about CSS positioning (well, until the article on floats comes out).
Microsoft, the web, and lots of long words
Microsoft have long been seen as the enemy of The True Web ™, and to be honest they haven’t always been on the ball when it comes to Internet developments. However perhaps all that is to change. This particularly intrigues me: Later this year, it will offer Live CRM, a Microsoft-hosted, subscription-based version of its… Read more »
Limiting the number of characters entered into a textarea or input box
I bet that title just grabbed you, yes? Well, sound boring it may do, but it’s been a bit of a problem for web designers for a long while now. However I’ve just made things a little easier with the latest addition to my Performer library. Suffice to say the new function is called ‘Limiter’… Read more »