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HTML5 defined – it’s not CSS3

This has been reported elsewhere, but it’s useful to bear in mind. ExtJS has a blog entry on how people are confusing the upcoming HTML5 spec with things like CSS3. And they say this is the same confusion that brought the overuse of AJAX and Web2.0 terms. The spec is just a “broad collection of [...]

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Fri, May 28 2010 » Web developing, ajax / javascript, technology » No Comments

Hughes Design’s new web and mobile sites

I’ve been working with Hughes Design developing their new website and it’s finally live at www.hughes-design.co.uk The website has plenty of information on capabilities, the team and previous clients and work. As well as graphic design, branding and website building, Hughes Design are now providing mobile website development. I’m now part of the iPhone Development [...]

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Tue, March 23 2010 » PHP, Web developing, ajax / javascript » No Comments

Lightview not functioning

I’ve used Lightview several times now and most times it’s worked straight away. This time I had a few issues. First off, the script files didn’t live in the usual place on the website, so I had to make sure I targeted them correctly so that effects.js, part of the scriptaculous / prototype library was active. It’s easy enough to test that a file is loading using Firebug in Firefox or the new Developer tools in Safari.

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Wed, January 13 2010 » Web developing, ajax / javascript » No Comments

New website, small contribution made

A new website for Acupuncture and Shiatsu practitioner Fiona Hurlock has just gone live at www.fionahurlock.com. Built and designed by Hughes Design, I was asked to assist with some menus on the treatment page. The menus were quickly implemented using scriptaculous and css so that the menu element changed colour on hover and the arrow [...]

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Thu, June 25 2009 » PHP, Web developing, ajax / javascript » No Comments

scriptaculous effects failing

If an effect using scriptaculous fails it could be due to it being applied to an element that is hidden (display: none) If the display is set within a css file it needs to be moved to be inline on the element. ie <div style=”display: none”> The effect should then work. Thanks to the notes [...]

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Fri, June 19 2009 » Web developing, ajax / javascript » No Comments