Posted by Jeff L
September 29th, 2009
I was recently working on coding a design that included a simple type of faux select element. It was basically an unordered list that expanded and collapsed when you clicked a link. As it was styled similar to a select element, the JavaScript behaviors were similar as well. Clicking the link expanded the list underneath it, and you could then choose a link inside the list and navigate away from the page, or click the original link to close the list again.
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Posted by Jeff L
February 20th, 2009
At PixelMEDIA, we’re starting to see more of our clients inquiring about how to get started on the mobile web. I thought I’d share some of the lessons we’ve learned. These are five things to keep in mind when starting a new mobile project.
1) Decide which content to put on your mobile site
One of the first challenges when starting a new mobile project is deciding exactly what content to offer your mobile visitors. There are a few differing opinions in the industry right now; some people strongly believe in the One Web, while others believe that the experience should be re-shaped for the medium. This could mean a new website, new content, and a new information architecture as well as a design optimized for mobile.
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Posted by Jeff L
February 13th, 2009
Recently, we had a situation that required us to pull in some content from one server to another using an iframe. Generally, this is something we would try to avoid, but we needed to pull some data from a new .NET application into a legacy ColdFusion application.
Unfortunately, the height of the page being pulled in would vary wildly. This led to a fairly disappointing experience where the page was either far too long, or content in the iframe was cut off and the user had to scroll within the iframe to see everything.
We came up with what we thought might be an interesting solution. If the page loading inside of the iframe (the child page) could calculate its height, and somehow let the parent page know, the parent page should be able to reset the height of the iframe.
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