Posted by Patricia Powers
January 22nd, 2010
Will 2010 finally be the year that Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) loses enough market share that developers no longer need to support it? I know I speak for not only myself but for many of my developer colleagues when I say, “one can hope!” IE6 will be 9 years old this year and yet there is still a column for it on our QA checklist. Windows has come out with two newer (and better) browsers within the last 9 years that we also support; yet developers typically code for the most recent version of Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. So why do we need to support a version of IE that in today’s technology space is equivalent to a fossil? (Read More…)
Posted by kanderson
January 7th, 2010
The goal of any good web firm should be to provide clients with the best possible online face to the world. Notice, however, that I use the term “best possible”. The reality is that we as developers, designers, information architects, content strategists, account managers and project managers, are often limited by the budget, particularly in this difficult economy. While a $100,000 website redesign might be off the table during tough times, “small victories” in key places can happen as part of the regular support and maintenance of your website, and often have a big impact.
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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.
The client, however, found this a bit confusing (Read More…)
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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