CSS/Ajax
Web technologies, including Html, CSS and Javascript
By Armand Niculescu on January 4, 2010
In case you think embedding fonts in web pages is something new, I made the first font embedding experiments in browsers in 1998. It was working – cross-browser too: Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape Navigator 4. See, EOT from Microsoft is quite old (introduced in 1996) and Netscape had their own format, called .pfr, based on the TrueDoc technology developed by Bitstream. So how comes that more than a decade later we still don’t have a fully working way of using custom fonts on the web?
Posted in CSS/Ajax, News | Tagged css, cufon, embedding, flash, fonts, typography |
By Armand Niculescu on April 13, 2009
If you need to make collapsible panels that remember their state, but don’t want to use any javascript framework, this tutorial will help you do this with no headaches – and you’ll learn some neat javascript tricks too!
Posted in CSS/Ajax | Tagged ajax, animation, code, css, download, javascript, tutorial |
By Armand Niculescu on April 17, 2008
I just read on Google’s official Webmaster blog that they’ve started experimenting with more advanced crawling to help them index pages inaccessible via links. Their crawler is actually filling and submitting forms from the site and check the results.
Posted in CSS/Ajax | Tagged CSS/Ajax, google |
By Armand Niculescu on October 30, 2006
I usually prefer a fixed layout for pages, because this allows for more control over typography, readability and so on. Still, one of biggest clients specifically required two years ago their site to be built with a liquid layout that expands full-width; the whole site (about 2000 html and aspx pages) was eventually done this [...]
Posted in CSS/Ajax | Tagged css, internet explorer, javascript |
By Armand Niculescu on October 13, 2006
If you’ve ever used XML+XSLT in your browser, you know that using View Source presents you with the original XML file, not the HTML that you might have expected; this makes debugging XSL transformations somewhat difficult.
Posted in CSS/Ajax | Tagged xml, xslt
By Armand Niculescu on December 14, 2005
Whenever one builds a website, one issue is always guaranteed time consuming: highlighting the current page or section in the website with a different style. In theory, this is relatively simple, just add a .current class to the link in question. So, if you have a menu styled from a list, you’d have: <ul> <li><a [...]
Posted in CSS/Ajax | Tagged ajax, css, html, javascript |
