Android & iPhone browser wars: Intro to the WebKit

Introduction Combined, the iPhone and Android platforms have more than 100,000 application titles available for download across their respective app stores. Native applications are those created with a platform's SDK, then compiled and installed to a device. These native applications provide thorough access to a device's inherent capabilities, including features like wireless networking, Bluetooth, data...

A Beginner's Guide To CSS

CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a 'language' that website designers use to develop the style, look and feel of layout, text and colours on a website page. Used properly, CSS can be used to separate design from content, making websites easier to use and ultimately, maintain. It can also help with download times as the CSS is downloaded only once and held in browser cache. A good (the best?) website development technique is to build your pages using HTML and link this page to what is called...

Ajax with images and stylesheets

This should be filed under the quirky category :) Julien Lamarre has demonstrated doing Ajax-style callbacks not using XHR. Nor iframes. Nor Java. Nor Flash. He implemented it with images and CSS. Ajax using an image The client to server connection works by sending a request to the server using a dynamically created image with some parameters added to its “.src” property. The server’s response is sent in a cookie at the same time the generated image is returned to the client. Or, when cookies...

Styling hr with CSS

Introduction Even though it's sometimes recommended to replace the element with cascading stylesheets only using horizontal borders of other elements, I prefer as a section divider. This makes a web page more readable even in older browsers that receive only pure HTML with no style sheet.  On the other hand, simple, unstyled does not look good in richly styled documents. That's why I tried to find a couple of cross-browser compatible ways to make it prettier. I used to hide...

CSS Design: Going to Print

by Eric MeyerYou’ve seen them before: links that say “click here for printer-friendly version” or words to that effect. Every time you follow one of those links, you load a separate document that presents exactly the same information with a different layout, and probably different markup. That means somebody (or a script) had to take the original document and convert it to a stripped-down version that’s more suitable for print output. Maybe that somebody was even you. Print style sheets...

Links Without Underline

Learn how to create links without the underline in Dreamweaver using stylesheets. Have you wanted to get rid of the underline in a link? Well! It's really simple using CSS styles. Learn how to make links with no underline. If you use Dreamweaver as your HTML editor you need to go to your style palette, make a new style and apply the style on your link. Here are the steps: Click on...

AJAX accessibility for websites

AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is an innovative way of using existing technologies to create highly interactive web applications. AJAX allows portions of the page to be updated without having to refresh and reload the entire page. It can increase site performance significantly and provide cutting edge user interfaces. Unfortunately it can also be a source of concern for delivering fully accessible web sites. What is AJAX? AJAX is not a new technology in itself but a new approach to...