Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Firefox 3.5 and your own fonts…

Among support for a number of HTML 5 specifications and updates to improve the tab experience, Fireox 3.5 now supports CSS Web Fonts.  From Datamation: One of the most visible changes that Firefox 3.5 will enable for Web developers comes by way of support for CSS Web Fonts. “When you think about it, Web designers have had to play with the same ten fonts that they could reliably ensure were on everyone’s computer,” Beltzner said. Beltzner explained that the way fonts have worked in the past is that a Web developer specified a particular font that needed to be resident on a user’s... [read more]

Wolfram|Alpha…the anti-Google?

WIRED Epicenter has an article on the new search engine called Wolfram|Alpha being released this month that will challenge Google in the search arena… The product of four years of development, Alpha is an engine for answers. Its ambition is to delve into “all the knowledge in the world,” Wolfram says, to find and calculate information. Though Alpha’s interface evokes Google ― whose co-founder Sergey Brin once spent a summer interning for Wolfram ― it’s more like the anti-Google. Type in a query for a statistic, a profile of a country or company, the average airspeed of a sparrow... [read more]

WebPub Presents…Web Apps: The Collision of Design and Business with Jared Spool

May 28, 2009 Topic: Web Apps: The Collision of Design and Business Speaker: Jared Spool, UIE Time: 12:00p–1:00p Location: 46-3001 Who has the best practices for web app design and what do they do to make world-class applications? Jared will share the latest research in the techniques and methodologies that can make a huge difference. Thousands of sites have the same web app: the e-commerce checkout process. They all do essentially the same thing: exchange the site’s products for the customer’s money, simultaneously arranging for delivery and payment. Yet, every single one is... [read more]

Access Oriented Web Design with Scott Jehl

“Access-Oriented Web Design” is an approach for safely applying progressive enhancement in websites and applications so they deliver an accessible and functional experience to the widest audience possible. Web design guru Scott Jehl from Boston’s The Filament Group discussed “Access-Oriented Web Design: Building highly-interactive web apps that work for everyone” at our April 2009 WebPub presentation.  Scott specializes in website design and development, is a member of the jQuery and jQuery UI design teams, and runs WriteMaps, an application for planning websites.... [read more]

Generate “ajax loading” images

Not much information on the people that created Ajaxload, but heck it’s cool and free: Create easily your own ajax loader icon : Select the type of indicator you want Enter the background code color you want (tick “Transparent background” if you don’t want one Enter the foreground code color you want Press “Generate it” I think they forgot one final instruction where you have to say “Presto change-0″   [read more]