Posts tagged ‘web design and development’
Flash support is increasingly a minefield
Posted Wednesday, March 13th, 2013.
Filed under e-learning, web design and development with the tags Adobe, Adobe Flash, Flash Player, opinion, web browsers, web design and development
Back in 2011, I mentioned that Microsoft was about to halt development of the Silverlight plugin, that Flash mobile was being discontinued, and that Adobe recommended HTML5 for enterprise RIA development instead of Flex, which was being open-sourced. My post was a little long-winded, but the short version was: whoa, the times-are-a-changin’, it’s getting dangerous to [...]
Using the object element to dynamically embed Flash SWFs in Internet Explorer
Posted Monday, May 30th, 2011.
Filed under General, JavaScript, web design and development with the tags How-to, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, standards, SWFObject, web design and development
This is a journey into the madness of Internet Explorer. Yes, there is a happy ending.
Sniffing Internet Explorer via JavaScript
Posted Wednesday, May 18th, 2011.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags How-to, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, SWFObject, web browsers, web design and development
I’ve been reviewing bug submissions for the SWFObject project and was reminded of a big problem with SWFObject 2.2: the JavaScript technique it uses for detecting Internet Explorer does not work in Internet Explorer 9.
PDFObject Updated, Moved to GitHub
Posted Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags JavaScript, JavaScript UI Goodies, PDFObject, web design and development
Three years have passed since PDFObject 1.0 was released, and the browser landscape has changed dramatically. I figured it’s time to dust off PDFObject and see if it can be improved and/or updated for today’s browsers.
IFrames and cross-domain security, part 3
Posted Sunday, October 17th, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags How-to, JavaScript, web design and development
In 2008 I posted a quick writeup on how I dealt with cross-domain security issues for some of my e-learning courseware. Since then, I’ve had a lot of people contact me with various questions and for example files. Tonight I decided to revisit the topic and whip up some quick example files.
Comparing and cloning objects in JavaScript
Posted Friday, July 23rd, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags How-to, JavaScript, jQuery, MooTools, web design and development
Two simple functions for comparing and cloning JavaScript objects without requiring a framework like jQuery.
For Your Reading Pleasure: EasyCaptions
Posted Monday, June 7th, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags accessibility, Adobe Flash, EasyCaptions, How-to, HTML 5, JavaScript, JavaScript UI Goodies, video, web design and development
Introducing EasyCaptions: A simple system for adding captions and an interactive transcript to online videos. EasyCaptions uses progressive enhancement to provide the best possible experience for all visitors, regardless of their browser’s JavaScript, HTML5 or Flash support. Demonstration Background I don’t produce much video these days, but as a web surfer I often encounter other [...]
TextAreaExpander Class for MooTools
Posted Friday, May 7th, 2010.
Filed under General with the tags How-to, HTML, JavaScript, JavaScript UI Goodies, MooTools, web design and development
It does exactly what is says: expand textareas. No more, no less.
Providing the same UI across browsers
Posted Thursday, April 8th, 2010.
Filed under web design and development with the tags CSS, HTML, interface design, opinion, UI, web browsers, web design and development
If you change the default controls to match the look and feel of something your visitor has never seen before, you run the risk of creating confusion, distrust, or alienation. Even worse, if the controls are poorly made or conceived — and many are — you might make your site less usable. A cardinal sin.
The more I think about it, the real beneficiaries of a uniform UI across browsers aren’t the site visitors, but rather the designers who demand artistic control and the clients who insist the product looks the same everywhere, without understanding that it’s okay (even expected) to have some differences.
Rounded corners on images using CSS3
Posted Friday, April 2nd, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags CSS, JavaScript, JavaScript UI Goodies, jQuery, MooTools, progressive enhancement, web design and development
Most browsers do not allow images to be cropped using CSS3′s border-radius. Tim Van Damme recently posted a workaround for this issue. Here’s a MooTools script that automates Tim’s workaround yet degrades gracefully when JavaScript is disabled.
