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Absolute positioning setting dimensions

( Usability and CSS )

I don’t use absolute positioning all that often but have found a new use for it, setting dimensions of an object to occupy dimensions that are hard to get. Like 100% -200px.
By giving an element opposing position values i.e left:0 and right: 0; you are saying make this elements left margin touch the left […]

Soul destroying

( Usability and CSS )

Menu’s built by javascript and Menu’s with text-decoration: blink;

Bezier curves with <canvas>

( Usability and (X)HTML )

Having some fun with the html canvas element. linky linky

Actually incorporating the Rich Text Editor

May be more difficult than building it..
The rich text editor is built into an ASP ‘control’ so it can be re-used and customized server-side, currently all of the HTML for the textarea, iframe and toolbars are put into the page through this control depending on it’s properties. A script tag is embedded into the […]

simple cross browser rich text editor

I’ve looked in the past on multiple occasions to find a simple no-frills rich text editor and come up blank.
Of course there a good open-source fully-featured rte’s like tinyMCE and FckEditor, but they are a bit overkill for a simple editor. I found this one that comes close to what I was wanting […]

TextMate w00t

( Usability )

I’m just scratching the surface of what you can do with TextMate
There’s much more
It’s pretty cool how you can create your own bundles with Regular Expressions. I need to practice those..
A great African Christmas Medoly

Before XMLHttpRequest.. there was iframe

( Usability and AJAX and Javascript )

I’m working on a search control at the moment, the current flow is:
A javascript function on page1 takes your input and set’s an iframe’s src=”page2″
page2 either
writes a javascript function to send back a single result to page1
OR launches page3 in a ModalDialog Which contains an […]

PHP - XML transformation

( Usability and PHP )

One thing I am learning in Web Application Development is browsers poor support for new XML technologies like XSLT which is used to transform XML into other documents using a simple templating language, XSLT.
XSLT is wonderfully simple to understand, and XPath (similar to a selector in CSS) can target parts of the XML document to […]

The light at the end of the tunnel and a job opportunity

( Usability )

Well.
I can count weeks until Time of Arrival on one hand and i’m pretty happy and exited about the change. Reflecting on it, i’ve been in school since Kindergarten without a break(apart from school holidays). The program coordinator for my degree wouldn’t let me defer my course for a year after VCE so […]

A change long overdue

( Usability and CSS and (X)HTML )

http://www.swin.edu.au/index_mb.php
Let’s take a look at some of the bigger changes in detail:
Before:

File-size:
Before:
Weighs in at 46.3 KB (47,505 bytes)
After:
17.1 KB (17,608 bytes)
CSS rules!