Iwebkit is the revolutionnairy kit used to create high quality iPhone and iPod touch websites in a few minutes and is based on an LGPL license. In the first 4 months of it’s existance the pack has greatly evolved from a basic idea to a project that has reached worldwide fame!
The technique is actually a lot simpler than it looks, it’s based around scrolling a very tall gradient image behind some transparent PNG images. The header image (with our logo, strapline and the laptop) has a transparent background and solid text, while the main page is actually an image with the heading text as transparent cut outs.
Did you note how difficult is to deal with highly populated dropdowns? More than 50 elements can be a real pain… Can we do something about it -specially when this “highly populated dropdown” is necessary-? Thanks to JavaScript/jQuery the answer is a big yes.
There have been many changes to the HTML 5 landscape since my colleague, Lachlan Hunt’s 2007 article on A List Apart, A Preview of HTML 5. Let’s see what’s happening in the world of HTML 5.
This post shows how to get a word count from an HTML textarea or text input using jQuery and display it on the page. The word count is updated as the user types. Examples included.
Exploring a new rounded cornered technique with no images and 100% cross-browser.
In this first part of the “Up the Moo Herd: MooTools Tips and Tricks” series, we’re going to talk about the fetcher functions and methods. These are the most used functions and methods in MooTools, and mastering them is essential for controlling the DOM.
Many sites are sharing data using JSON in addition to RSS feeds nowadays, and with good reason: JSON feeds can be loaded asynchronously much more easily than XML/RSS.
This article will cover the following:
* What is JSON?
* Why does JSON matter?
* How do we load JSON into a project?
We’ll also use our newfound skills with JSON at the end of this project to build a quick app that loads photos from Flickr without requiring a page refresh.
Seemingly non-obvious details can often separate good web design from great web design. You might not appreciate the quality of a well-designed website until you start using it, looking under the hood, putting it through tests, etc.
Getting a fixed header and footer working in IE6 can seem quite daunting. In this tutorial we’ll not only get it working in all the major browsers, but we’ll also cover all the necessary steps required in doing so. By the end of this tutorial, you should be able to implement this into your own projects without having to copy and paste a thing.