Everyone who ever worked on a high-profile web site with web standards know there’s inevitable moment when the site has to go to its’ new owners. More than often we fall in love with the site’s tight structure and semantic markup. My heart breaks at that right moment when I have to insert a third-party advertisement script, which I know in advance is a tag soup. But can we do something about it? Continue reading ›

For the HTML code <a id="aboutLink" href="/about/">about</a>, the document.getElementBy Id('aboutLink').href will return the full URL of the linked resource, for example http://somesite.com/about/.

If you want to get the exact value of the href attribute, you’d use document.getElementById('aboutLink').getAttribute('href'), which returns /about/. Yea, right – not in IE and Opera (both Win and Mac). See demo.

Okay, so an average man can’t go to a vacation without TV or newspaper, if he don’t want to miss the world goes ‘round. I’m not that kind of person. Actually, I really enjoyed my vacation with the family. I did nothing for a week, just burned my skin in the sun and ran around the beach after my little monster.

The Return of the Dead

After that pretentious subtitle, there’s no a movie review.

Okay, up until now – every rat and his neighbor visited A List Apart. I’m so glad I missed all that mess around design decisions on it’s redesign. These debates are quite exhausting and often useless… Anyway, gg to the team.

What I’d like to see more than a sweet redesign – is the quality content we used to read more often at ALA (and not just there). Personally, I’d like to see a new ideas, edge pushing and such – more conceptual stuff. For me, the XHTML, CSS and DOM techniques became pretty secondary (no, I’m not saying boring). I see those in exact same way like my father, the tailer, sees the new cutting machine.

Oxton is back. That’s a good news. Hilhorst is creative (and conceptual from above paragraph). That’s even better.

Pre-election Promises or What’s Due

It’s code name is TypeTester. You should see it by the end of the week. That would be if you’re a beta tester. You’re not? Become one.

This blog will be reworked. It’s boring and limiting. Watch this space for… oh, crap – what a cliché! If it happens, you’ll know it.

In March 2004 unpljugged studio found and applied their flash replacement concept at Blackduke v.10.

Update

Just a small clarification: sIFR is by Mike Davidson (the s is for scalable). It is based upon IFR, which stands for Inman Flash Replacement. IFR was first mentioned in February 2004. and introduced and explained in April 2004.

Update 2

Actually, it was Duke himself who made the .swf file and also it was his idea, guys from UP just made it work.

Along with the announcement/release of IE7 beta, we at web.burza silently dropped support for IE5.01 for Windows. That decision came after we did quite a few high-profile general audience web sites completely with web standards, and after we found that there’s really, really low number of visitors viewing pages with that browser. We tend to believe that the most of the IE5 visitors on those web sites are ourselves, looking for unpredicted bugs. Continue reading ›

So far we know it’s not new maratz.com and it’s not Lorem ipsum generator.

It is a .GIF image, but that would be great answer if this was a trick question. It is some kind of widget, but not dashboard widget. It is designer’s tool, but not layout generator.

And a bonus riddle:

“I’m the beginning of the end
You can see me twice in a week but not in a day
Once in year but twice a decade
What am I?”