I’m writing this partly as a note to myself, but also in the hope it’ll help others too. We’ve recently been developing a few games and activities for interactive whiteboards, and found that they have a few kinks that it can be hard to keep track of during the design and dev process. So I… Read more »
With the release of Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5 another browser—along with Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome—now supports html5’s video tag. We’re still a long way from complete browser support, and a working standard. Ian Hickson, among other things, editor of the html5 spec lays the land out as follows: “Apple refuses to implement Ogg Theora in… Read more »
You see a lot of form markup that uses extra DIVs to line things up. But mostly, I don’t find this necessary. Here’s how I usually do it: <style> .stdForm { width:300px; } .stdForm label { float:left; width:100px; } .stdForm input, .stdForm textarea { margin-bottom:5px; width:180px; } .stdForm textarea { height:50px; } .stdForm #send {… Read more »
if you’ve banged your ahead against a brick wall that your swf is swapping @ with ” in text fields.. wmode might be the problem. When wmode is set to transparent specifically in Firefox, It will display @ as ” and ” as @ in input text fields. Basically making you think your keyboard is… Read more »
if you’ve banged your ahead against a brick wall that your swf is swapping @ with ” in text fields.. wmode might be the problem. When wmode is set to transparent specifically in Firefox, It will display @ as ” and ” as @ in input text fields. Basically making you think your keyboard is… Read more »
Basics Based around Dreamweaver templates. Create “Editable regions” – the end-user can edit these. Use “Repeating regions” e.g. http://www.ccdu.co.uk/news.htm for when users can add and remove similar areas. Create editable regions within headings if you want to restrict the user to a certain style for that area (again see the repeating regions and the h1… Read more »
When building HTML emails forget everything you know about modern, best practice HTML/CSS. Support for these is very limited and has taken a step backwards with Outlook 2007 (http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2007/01/the_truth_behind_the_outlook_2.html) Use tables for any kind of complex layout. Don’t use CSS positoning – Outlook 2007 doesn’t support it and emails can have text appended to the… Read more »