Posts filed under "DHTML"

# Cookie separation in modern browsers

Posted: Oct 31, 2006, under Standards, DHTML. Add a comment!

A short analysis of how modern browsers separate session cookies between their different instances.

# Special characters, on the fly

Posted: Oct 11, 2006, under ODP, DHTML. Add a comment!

Are you away from your regular computer or notebook and you find yourself in need to generate certain special characters for a webpage? The solution is simple: use a bookmarklet that will bind those characters to certain keyboard shortcuts.

# Hostile CSS delivery

Posted: Apr 23, 2006, under DHTML. Add a comment!

Do you think CSS Zen Garden is a challenge? That's only because you haven't tried styling an ODP editor profile...

# Car crusher drop shadows

Posted: Feb 27, 2006, under Graphical design, DHTML. Add a comment!

A trick that expands upon the rounded corners technique, allowing you to create drop shadows all around a variable width box.

# CSS image hover captions

Posted: Dec 22, 2005, under DHTML. Add a comment!

How to create image captions that appear only when the mouse pointer hovers over the image, entirely with CSS (ie. no JavaScript). Great for stylish photo galleries.

# AJAX: what is it good for

Posted: Dec 8, 2005, under Technology, DHTML. Add a comment!

Chris McEvoy did a spoof of a well known Alertbox article aimed at frames, authored by usability guru Jakob Nielsen, and redirected it towards AJAX. Unsuprisingly, AJAX came out of the clinch looking rather bad.

# Communicating between browser windows

Posted: Dec 7, 2005, under DHTML. Add a comment!

How to communicate between separate browser windows in real time, using cookies set from JavaScript. Obviously, it only works among windows opened in the same domain.

# Sidebar Slider

Posted: Dec 3, 2005, under WordPress, DHTML. Add a comment!

This WordPress plugin makes block elements slide up and down as you scroll through a page, so you can always have the sidebar, for instance, within easy reach.

# New canvas extension kicks serious butt

Posted: Nov 28, 2005, under Software, Standards, DHTML. Add a comment!

Altough still currently just a working draft, the new <canvas> tag proposed by WhatWG.org has the potential to kill off Java applets and Flash for good.

# Internet Explorer: scrollTop vs DOCTYPE

Posted: Nov 23, 2005, under DHTML. Add a comment!

Using DOCTYPE declarations disables document.body.scrollTop in Internet Explorer, making it always return zero. You have to resort to document.documentElement.scrollTop instead.

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