Simon Willison
One of the Opera browser’s best kept secrets is Opera Show, a brilliant feature which allows the easy creation and display of PowerPoint style presentations using HTML and the CSS projection... Read More
Cameron Adams and Dave Shea both came through recently with some smart new CSS techniques. Cameron’s trick, entitled Resolution dependent layout, provides a welcome new angle to the long... Read More
If you want proof that remote scripting has hit the mainstream, look no further than the recent launches of both Amazon’s A9.com search engine and Google’s new Google Local service. Both... Read More
The three-day weekend here in the US has coincided with a barrage of new articles from the web development community: Pocket-Sized Design: Taking Your Website to the Small Screen – Elika Etemad... Read More
Here are a couple of fun new toys that have surfaced in the past 24 hours. First up, Mike Davidson, Shaun Inman and Tomas Jogin have released sIFR, a new take on Shaun Inman’s infamous IFR... Read More
The Max Design web standards checklist offers a nice, concise way of checking the overall quality of a website, at least from an architectural point of view. The key concepts embodied in the list are... Read More
XMLHttpRequest is one of modern DHTML’s best kept secrets. If you haven’t encountered it before, it’s a method of making an HTTP call back to the hosting web server without... Read More
Veerle Pieters has published a tutorial series entitled “Designing a CSS Template”, which makes a refreshing change from many existing tutorials in concentrating on design first, and only... Read More
The key to writing smart CSS is mastering selectors. Although often overlooked, applying them in an intelligent way can dramatically reduce the size of your stylesheet while simultaneously keeping it... Read More
I came across a situation at work today where I needed to take an XML string from a textarea and perform DOM manipulations on it using JavaScript. After some digging around, I remembered an open... Read More
Yesterday saw the launch of a new design for All Music Guide, the music world’s answer to the Internet Movie Database. AMG has been around since 1995 and has grown to be by far the largest and... Read More
If you’ve been connected to the ‘net at all in the past few months, you can’t have missed the hype surrounding Gmail, Google’s new 1 GB webmail service. Going one up on the... Read More
Andy Clarke has published a neat new technique called Trimming form fields, which uses beautiful unobtrusive DHTML to allow users to toggle the visibility of optional form fields for easier... Read More
Doug Bowman: Filtering CSS. Doug introduces a brand new CSS filter, fresh from the mind of Tantek Learn Responsive Web Design SitePoint's ebook: Jump Start Responsive Web Design Responsive Web... Read More




