'Web Development' Category
Improved Flash indexing by Google
Big news. Read here. Thanks to Mr “always 4th in the league” for sending me the link.
Flex accessibility
A good post from Aral regarding the state of accessibility within Flex. I hope they concentrate on this side of Flash soon rather than adding more wizzy features; it seems with Flash and AJAX you’re always having to hold your hands up and admit that they don’t bring a lot to the party when it […]
Stop using AJAX!
Very good article on the dev Opera site by brothercake on why AJAX isn’t necessarily the best thing ever when it comes to building websites and keeping the web accessible to all.
Flash performance in browsers and within AIR
Meant to post this before. Interesting comparison between the performance of Flash within a browser and within the AIR runtime.
Get Flash you stupid hippie!
One of the major pains of web development is having to factor in users with “non-standard configurations”. What looks good on your machine doesn’t mean it will for a proportion of your users. However, this no-flash warning up on the South Park website is pure genius, as is the 404. I wish I was given […]
Safari 3.1 kicks ass
Apple have updated Safari to version 3.1 to include support for a lot of cutting-edge technology (including client-side database storage), along with adding a native developer dropdown (enabled within the preferences section). With Firefox 3, Opera 9.5 coming soon and, erm, IE8, it’s looking like the browser market is about to make web developer’s lives […]
SWFObject 2.0
The new SWFObject is out. There are two main ways to embed Flash content on a page, with Option 2 sounding like the best fit for the rules/regulations we have to adhere to for work (progressive enhancement, no click-to-activate rubbish in IE, you HAVE to have JS to view the Flash, etc). Option 2 follows […]
Revised Meyer CSS reset stylesheet
Here
Death of the Netscape browser
AOL, who these days own Netscape, have announced that they’re to cease development of the browser. I’ve mixed feeling weirdly enough, although from a professional point of view it’s good news as it’s one less browser to have to test websites against in the long term.
When I started out developing websites, Netscape was the browser […]Unofficial Wii Opera SDK released
Very eager to try this out. Read news originally on Joystiq.
