Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
I recently started using a new service called CrossBrowserTesting, and it’s so incredibly awesome I felt compelled to write a review. First some background… Browser compatibility is a difficult challenge for all web designers and developers. The process of debugging HTML, CSS, or Javascript problems that only occur on specific ...
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
In January (2007), I wrote a howto for embedding Flash using JavaScript. The examples I gave were for SWFObject and Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) — the howto was for UFO. Now there’s a third viable option for embedding Flash using JavaScript. It’s called FlashReplace and was written by Robert Nyman. ...
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Mark Wubben announced on Wednesday (December 26, 2007) that sIFR was getting closer to its final release. In a message to all of the developers and beta testers, he said: Good news, I’m running out of bugs to fix. Pretty much the only thing left to do is support page ...
Friday, December 14th, 2007
Adobe’s new Flash Player (version 9,0,115,0) does not work with earlier versions of sIFR 2. Mark Wubben, the current maintainer of the sIFR code, sent out an alert early this morning notifying everyone on the sIFR developer list. The problem arises when a designer has specified a hover color to ...
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
There’s a lot of interesting news hanging out in my newsreader this morning. These were the most notable: Optimize Your Site for Google Image Search In SEO you generally don’t think about optimizing images, but that’s not the case when you consider the traffic you can get from Google Image ...
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
So, you designed some totally sweet Flash movie and then the client says, “but I want to be able to switch out those images whenever I feel like it.” Do you: throw a freakin’ hissy a la Naomi Campbell give up and watch some more YouTube put on your big ...
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Mark Wubben just announced the release of sIFR 3 Revision 209. This revision includes the following new features: Support for pixel fonts through the pixelFont argument. See JavaScript Methods: replace. A way to stop the page jumps by specifying the ratios argument. (More about ratios). See JavaScript Methods: replace. Support ...
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Back in March of 2006 Tyler Hall wrote an entry titled, “The Internet Will End on April 11.” In it he wrote: The changes to Internet Explorer will require web developers to completely rewrite the way they use embedded content across all of their websites. Once the update ships on ...
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
TheGoogleCache caught my attention with his complex flowchart that helps Web designers figure out when to use or not use Flash. It may take some time to figure out, but I encourage you to study it, learn it and put it into practice. Link: Should I Make a Flash Site? ...