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mardi 27 octobre 2009

US climate change reaction won't change the world

We need to put the world on a carbon diet. That's a light way of saying we're on a crash-course to destruction. What's the best way to tackle this when you're the american Secretary of Energy?

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lundi 27 juillet 2009

SelectOverflow: Mootools Plugin for long select tags

This plugin replaces long selects with a text input that acts like a select (and can be styled like one too). Compatible with Mootools 1.22.

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IE6 bug using blur and focus on form events

While developping SelectOverflow (a Mootools plugin for long selects), IE6 fired the blur event when I said focus(). Here's how I circumvented the bug.

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lundi 26 novembre 2007

Mobile web: a few things to know

Internet on a pocket device has very little in common with the fuller "desktop" experience. On the other hand, it also has a lot in common...

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jeudi 4 octobre 2007

Obtaining query parameters in Javascript

The location object suffers from poor design in Javascript. Here's a function to retrieve the query parameters from the page (if any).

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lundi 11 juin 2007

Bookmarklet: Open in New Window

Bookmarklets, also called favlets, are tiny bits of Javascript saved in the "Location" field of a bookmark, and used to perform predefined actions. More specifically, this bookmarklet "pops" the page currently viewed into a new window of its own.

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jeudi 5 avril 2007

CSS Naked day

What happened to the design?

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vendredi 2 mars 2007

Good and bad practices in Web design

This list of do's and don'ts intends to provide quick examples and explanations of what to do and avoid to be successful on the web. Because we web professionals are responsible for educating our clients, which in turn will help ourselves, and the web be a better place.

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mercredi 28 février 2007

Firefox themes and usability

As mentioned in Firefox themes in an overview, the ability for users to theme and restyle Firefox is one of it's greatest assets, together with addons. But here are a few usability notions to keep in mind when designing themes.

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dimanche 21 janvier 2007

Align bottom in float-based CSS column layout

Some things are easier to do with tables than CSS, but there's always a way to get it done. Here's how to bottom align a section in a float-based columns context.

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