No winners – “Can you guess what the code below is doing?”
Dec 22Well thanks for the single response, time for me to popularize this site I guess The code below is a left hand tree navigation built in ”Prototype“ without the tree elements . Its unique because… It highlights self, the parent it belongs to Collapses everybody if the great grandparent is clicked but expands only to the first child if itself is clicked. Put it on a...
Why can’t you remember what I opened last…A tale of amnesia in Windows apps
Dec 22The file open / save dialog box probably gets the least limelight, it’s dismissed as fast as its invoked. However make no mistake the interface specialists probably gave a lot of thought. Microsoft doesnt seem to care to popularize the thought behind how its dialog boxes appear, but Apple does and I have a feeling that that MS simply read and copied from the Apple Interface Click to...
Internet Explorer 7 – CSS 2.1 is priority, but what about CSS3
Oct 10It seems the IE Team plans to do a quick job of making IE CSS 2.1 compliant, that means , it starts catching up with firefox standards wise but misses out looking into the future. The caveat is only a doctype switch will enable compliance In all, we made over 200 behavior changes (bug fixes or new features) under strict mode to improve CSS2.1 compliance. All this work (with the exception of...
Can you guess what the code below is doing?
Oct 06If you can guess right, I will share with you my personal worthy notes on CSS and the 5 greatest aricles that have been hidden from much of the dev population The list includes but is not limited to Universal Selectors CSS 2.1 compatibility CSS formatting techniques Click to continue reading “Can you guess what the code below is...
Did I do a Web 2.0
Aug 29Its in vogue, calling yourself a Web 2.0 application, site or enterprise, but I really wonder if I touched the tip of the iceberg sometime back. About two years ago I worked on a compliance management product that had reports. The team developing the application, suggested about 10 presets for 21 reports on the system. A preset was basically a combination of reports with filter criteria...
Who Moved my Manhole.
Aug 29“Why are Manhole covers round?” asked the man on the phone, err umm…because they are easy to get in I pleaded. A classical question but the answers are many. I probably surprised him by the lack of choice. Wikipedia has a page dedicated to this and apparently my answer features there somewhere too…but the most appealing one to me was that Manhole covers are easy to...
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