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Accessible forms and unobtrusive javascript
I usually try to separate backend logic from the user interface logic when creating new PHP applications. I am pro fat gui and usually have a lot of client side scripting going on. I mostly use AJAX or other remote scripting techniques to call actions defined in the PHP backend. In my latest PHP project, [...]
Form design
Over at ajaxian.com I stumbled upon a link to Swapnonil Mukherjee’s blog and an interesting article about right aligning form labels. I seldom (never) do these kinds of tests but it is still good to see that other people actually think hard about these things. Designing good forms and applications is not as simple as [...]
Silly web 2.0 application
Sometimes people climb mountains because it’s cool. I can understand that.
Now ajax and web 2.0 is cool. So this ajax whois service wants to be web 2.0. In order to be web 2.0 it must be simple and things must be fetched asynchronously. The service is also using the captha technique – ajaxified. A service [...]
Busy – taking a pause
I have been way too busy the last couple of weeks. I’m working on a flashy new portal as well as my old content management system Firesite CMS. In Firesite I have always used a rather limited but ok wysiwyg editor for html content authouring. In a recent project I realized that the editor just [...]
Web 2.0?
Am I the only one not oh-so-extremely-excited about the web 2.0? Or rather the applications that are usually mentioned together with the web 2.0 term. Technology wise I, as a developer, really enjoy seeing all those nifty applications experimenting with functionality traditionally only found in desktop apps. I’d even go so far as to say [...]
Country names and capitals in different languages
When working on a web portal project a couple of years ago I tried to find country names and capitals in different European languages. The portal never went live but the information was a bit hard to find without paying substantial money. I just stumbled upon the the old sql backup of the data I [...]
Google page rank (somewhat) revealed
It seems that Google has filed a patent regarding their search engine technology recently. In doing so Google have had to reveal more information on how they actually rank web sites and pages. Some things I knew to be important; like how many links to a site there is. That however is only partly true. [...]
Google Web Accelerator
Recently the Google Web Accelerator (GWA)has received a lot of attention from web application developers. Rightly so. When installing GWA for use in your browser it speeds up surfing by prefetching pages. This can be very useful but also extremely dangerous as it has very bad side effects on many (badly designed) web applications. Why? [...]
Browser statistics
Over the last year things have changed quite rapidly in the browser market. When looking at my own stats for dotvoid.com I have now discovered that Internet Explorer is no longer number one here. I know the content of the site is geared towards other alternatives than IE/Windows. Still more than 80% of the visitors [...]
Protecting your artwork
Planet PHP is a very good thing. Actually – the planet concept is really good collecting loads of blogs on a specific subject in one place. Reading planet-php this morning Ken Coar had written something about protecting artwork. The most intresting in his post was actually his reference to a very good article he’s written [...]
