I’ve finally set myself to doing something with Microsoft’s Silverlight. After reading some of the basic stuff I have to say it looks promising. I can’t wait for C# support though, JavaScript is making my life miserable again . I’ve taken a code sample (written in BASIC) from and old book and converted it to [...]
A few weeks ago there was a “Fronteers” (the Dutch guild of front-end developers) meeting at our office in Utrecht. I was asked to give a talk about something interesting related to front-end web development. Quite a lot has been said and written about standards, accessibility, etc. so I had to come up with something [...]
I was working on a very frustrating issue that occurs in IE when the caching settings are set to “every visit to the page”. On slower servers, the background images were reloaded on a mouseover. While reloading the images dissappeared. One simple line of JavaScript will solve this issue: document.execCommand(“BackgroundImageCache”, false, true); Read more about [...]
I just found this excellent PDF about JavaScript 2.0. Some nice stuff in there. Too bad that Internet Explorer 7 uses none of these new features!
With the emergence of the AJAX-hype, and the code chaos that comes with it, there has been an increased interest in the structuring of JavaScript code. Very good concepts have been devised that take JavaScript a level further. To begin structuring your JavaScript code, the use of packages/namespaces is valuable start. JavaScript 1.3 doesn’t support [...]
A while ago I wrote an article about Inline SVG for the Dutch web magazine Naar Voren!. It showcases how to embed SVG objects into XHTML pages and how to make them work for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. When I find the time I’ll translate it into English and put it here on the [...]
I passed the CIW 1D0-435 JavaScript Fundamentals exam. It wasn’t too difficult when compared to Microsoft or Sun exams. Although useful, the exam is a little outdated and needs an update. Especially in the age of AJAX. For beginning JavaScripters this exam is a good start though.
Yet another blog about webdevelopment! My main purpose is to store all my tips & tricks for myself, but you never know if someone else might find them useful. Being a webstandards supporter, I’ve built this site according to the XHTML and CSS standards as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium. In order to [...]
