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Archive for the '(X)HTML' Category

HTML pre-launch flight check

Friday, August 25th, 2006

AnyBrowser have a lot of tools for you to use when validating and preparing your website for deployment including:

Screen Size Test
Meta Tag Creator
HTML Validation
Link checking
Engine View (See how your site might get listed by search engine spiders.)

Not a bad list, don’t forget that ALL web developers should validate their pages, perform link checking and test [...]

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SWFObject

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

I’ve been using SWFObject for quite a while now and it amazes me that developers out there still don’t know about it, especially with all the news around Microsoft’s EOLAS case late last year.
SWFObject is a tasty method for embedding Macromedia Flash content into your web pages and has (among others) the following functionality which [...]

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Semantic named anchors

Monday, July 17th, 2006

bitesizestandards have a nice article on ’semantic anchors’ which are used to link to different areas of the current page you are viewing.
The usual way we all do this is with a named anchor as follows, ‘Name’ a content area on your page:

Add the link to that content area
Go to myContent

The problem is that this [...]

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Flash of Unstyled Content

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

The lovely people (person?) over at Blue Robot have coined a term ‘FOUC’; or Flash of Unstyled Content.
This is that annoying ‘bug’ in Windows IE where a user can see the entire body of the page their trying to view ‘unstyled’ (particularly for page layout) for a moment before the stylesheet kicks in. If the [...]

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