Javascript Code Quality Tool
JSLint is a web based tool that I found today when surfing the net. The tool comes with various settings that helps you clean your javascript code, sanitize it and beautify it depending on how you would want to organize your javascript coding.
You can find the following link helpful if you are interested in learning more about code conventions used in Javascript Programming language.
CSS “display” Element takes in the following styles
display: none
display: block
display: inline (more…)
Box model bug in IE, Firefox
Display the below versions of the file in IE, Firefox and check the difference in display. Note the css styling used in Sample A and Sample B HTML coding.
When defining the width of the “div” layer it is essential that you need to consider the padding, margin, border size given to each element. As different browser versions have different ways of interpreting these values we need to cascade the width from the parent element to child layer if we were destined to use width for restricting the boundary of the element. (more…)
Cufon: Alternative to sIFR
To generate the scripts, you can choose to do that from the cufon site
http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/
or, download a copy of the script from github and install it in your local computer
http://github.com/sorccu/cufon/tree/master
If you download the files, then you need to untar the files and create your local site. If fontforge is not installed, you need to install it in your machine before you can proceed with generating the cufon script for the font and make the necessary changes in generate/settings.ini file. (more…)
Download the YUI (Yahoo User Interface) Compressor which compresses javascript and css files hence making the file size smaller and execution speed faster.
Download location:
http://www.julienlecomte.net/yuicompressor/
It is very simple to use this application to compress the files. All you need to have is a java installation in your machine. (more…)
Peek-a-boo Bug in IE6 and the possible solutions
When we design a liquid layout, the more common case of this bug appearing in pages will be when you design a <div> layer next to another <div> layer each set to float. It occurs in IE6 and is taken care of in IE7. (more…)
Different browser modes
To ensure backward compatibility with older browsers, browser creators had different modes for sites that work for different browser specifications
* Standard mode in Browser:
Browser renders a page according to the specifications set
* Quirks mode in Browser:
Browser loosely renders the page and manipulates the box model differently which happens to be in sites built for IE 5.5 (and lesser versions) or Opera 7 browsers
* Almost standard mode in Browser:This is a mode in Firefox/Safari browsers where they handle the tables quite differently from standard mode (more…)
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