Standardizing web forms
I think all web forms should look the same. What’s the goal of a web form? Its goal should be to collect information from the user. Whenever possible, we should get things to the point where users...
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Our washing machine is busted. After a bit of reading on both laundry repair and a refresher on how to use a multimeter, I’ve figured out that we need a new part. Off to the Sears website to see if...
View ArticleXHTML validity, enclose script and style elements with CDATA
I was reading up on the XHTML spec at w3.org and noticed something I haven’t done in years. For valid xhtml all inline script and style elements must be wrapped with CDATA. I don’t think I’ve done that...
View ArticleWebsites That Suck … bankofamerica.com
Last night I signed up for a checking account online at bankofamerica.com. As I was filling out the form, I realized that I needed an account number that I didn’t have handy. So I went to look for it....
View ArticlePhotosynth Demo at TED
Watch this video that came out tonight. It’s well worth the 10 minutes. This new implementation of the Seadragon software is simply incredible. This comes to us from Microsoft though and looks like for...
View ArticleAuto Play Video with an Audio Track
It seems like there has been a resurgence in a video file with an audio track automatically starting when a website loads. I see that there are two reasons for this, the first is new video ads, the...
View ArticleAdobe Hosts iPhone Developer Camp – Flash or Adobe Air
Adobe Flash is not available on the iPhone yet they will be hosting the first iPhone developer conference of sorts called iPhoneDevCamp. What does this mean? There is an FAQ on the site with some...
View Articletfoot between thead and tbody for summary
When insuring W3C validation on a website lately, I saw that the tfoot tag must come before the tbody tag. From the W3C spec: “TFOOT must appear before TBODY within a TABLE definition so that user...
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