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Category: unobtrusive javascript

  • What you don’t need javascript for – part 2

    Read part 1 of my rant There is a saying in Hungarian: Don’t look at the teeth of a horse you received as a gift. It refers to the fact that you shouldn’t criticize something if you get it for free. However from time to time I feel the need to raise my voice about…

  • My time

    Update: you can find a simpler to use solution here. From time to time I find myself reading a blog post which makes a reference to a give date / time (for example when a live stream will be activated). However the problem is that most of the time this reference is not given in…

  • What you don’t need javascript for

    With all this Web 2.0 craze people start assuming that we all have javascript. I have a message for those people: you can have forms without javascript. I know that all those fading and stuff is cool, but if you use the standards more people can use it. Example (I don’t mean to pick on…

  • How to publish a good looking code on Blogger? – take 2

    Update – there seem to be some issues with iframe-s and google reader (in the sense that its not displaying them 🙁 ). I’ll investigate the issue further shortly and hopefully can post a solution. Hello all! First of all I would like to apologize to all of you who in the last couple days…

  • Graceful degradation people!

    I went to check out Less Accounting (because I saw it at the Web 2.0 show). Here are two screenshots, one with javascript enabled and the other with it disabled: Do I really need javascript to submit a simple form? Really? As for the server running the given website, its version number isn’t too reassuring…

  • How to publish a good looking code on Blogger?

    This article is considered obsolete. Please read the followup post. From time to time I would like to publish a post in which I can show code snippets. However the standard <code> or <pre> tags look way too boring. Something with color stands much more out. I was thinking: if I had my own server…

  • Pimping my blog #2

    After observing that most of my visitors (45% currently) use Internet Explorer, I’ve made a little modification so that they to can enjoy the <q> tag. A more detailed discussion and other solutions can be found at the List Apart site. I’ll only present in short my version. My version consists of two parts: a…

  • Delaying the loading of elements in a web page

    After listening to the latest Practical Webdesign Magazine podcast (I listen to every one of them as well as the Boagworld podcast, both being great podcasts), I felt the urge to write this post :). When you include many third party things in your webpage, the loading of it can be slowed down considerably if…

  • (Yet an other) Javascript random password generator

    Here is YARPG (Yet Another Random Password Generator). Why on earth would I do yet an other random password generator? Because I can :). Seriously: there are at least two random password generators out there that I’ve used, and I have some problems with them: The one that Steve Gibson created can not be customized…