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Worth a look: DOMAssistant

A couple of months ago Robert Nyman showed me a javascript library he had built, DOMAssistant, and proceeded to use it successfully in one of our projects. I wasn’t amused. How could a tiny…

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Sharepoint 2007 from an interface developer’s view

Like Cameron Moll (Skinning Sharepoint and Pointedly unskinnable), I’ve been working with Sharepoint 2007 (aka MOSS) recently, and I hope you don’t mind me posting a few articles about…

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Manipulating innerHTML removes events

Others have written about this before, but I thought I’d mention it again, just so you don’t miss it. Aleksandar Vacić found it while playing with tables and their cells. I found it…

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I’m an interface developer

In his latest post Roger Johansson asks the question Are we designers or developers?. I have a simple answer for that. None of them. Let me explain:
First we have these people calling themselves…

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What is Web 2.0? Really.

Web 2.0 is really hot right now. One of Sweden’s biggest newspapers recently wrote a long article on their debate section. They had started linking back to blogs that linked to them, in a…

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Improving interactivity with Javascript

Push buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, select boxes, and text inputs. That’s the controls HTML allows us to use to interact with our users.
A small dedicated group of people at the office…

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Flash-only vs. AJAX sites

Even though web developers like me have discouraged from building Flash-only sites for as long as I remember, they are popping up all over the place. For no reason! We are ready to make the leap to…

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Web development blogs you should read

The web is filled with blogs about web development. I’m always looking for good blogs to add to my feed reader and I thought some of you might do that too. So let me list the webdev blogs I…

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How web standards feels

When talking about web standards many of us have started using marketing terms. Every day we hear about the bandwidth savings, the increased user base that are able to access your site, how well it…

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Concept: Four layers of web development

When thinking about web development on the client side, I tend to think of four different layers. Any (well built) framework will cater for all of these layers and all good developers will be aware…

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Challenge: What’s the worst you can do?

After reading through the comments on my levels of CSS article I find that I few people seem to think that the article is a way to ridicule beginners. It’s not. It’s a way to document…

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Extra fluid layouts with javascript

I’m a big fan of vector graphics. Because of that I love Macromedia Fireworks and the way it handles all elements like vectors. The good thing about that is that they can be resized and…

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Line breaks with javascript

Over the years there have been numerous suggestions of different ways of doing line breaks on the web. Browser incompatibilities, lack of support for standardized features, and the creation of…

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Make a tooltip out of some columns in a table

A worried user joins the #CSS channel on EFNet. He has a big problem with the site he’s currently working on and wonders if there might be a problem with his markup. Let’s see what he…

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Author: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström blogs about web development. Posts are bi-weekly.

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