In the new company I work for, a customer can generate a sales report and convert to PDF for download. To accomplish this, we take the valid HTML page (valid XHTML) which we read as XML to process to create our PDF. This works well except in the instance where a user has activated the [...]
In testing a site, I found some interesting quirky behaviors with IE. The CSS was syntatically correct and it confounded me why the visual flubs were smattering my site. Upon closer examination, I found that the site had no doctype. Just a note, dear reader, that I came into this project after it was already [...]
I recently got a new MacBook Pro, and in doing so I have the joys of Snow Leopard for the first time. Snow Leopard comes installed with Safari 5, and it had been so long since I had enabled the developer menu that I had forgotten how to do so. Apple makes it crazy easy [...]
An Event Apart 2008, Day 1, 6:15pm – 7:15pm Read the previous talk in this series, Underpants Over My Trousers by Andy Clarke, or view An Event Apart’s Table of Contents Special Adobe Session: Web Workflow with the Adobe Creative Suite Adam Pratt Sponsored by Adobe CS4 walkthrough This project includes >1700 Person Years of development [...]
An Event Apart 2008, Day 1, 2:30pm – 3:30pm Read the previous talk in this series, Design Criteria: Actionable Ideas by Sarah Nelson, or view An Event Apart’s Table of Contents On-the-Spot Usability Reviews Robert Hoekman, Jr An interaction designer and usability specialist Purpose, benefit, usage are the three keys in analysing a site’s usability [...]
An Event Apart Day 1, 9:45-10:45 am: Read the previous talk in the series, Understanding Web Design by Jeffrey Zeldman, or skip to the note’s talk Table of Contents CSS for accessibility checking You can set up safari to use a debug stylesheet Example of his personal debug.css Hilight the things that you do NOT [...]
Skip to the next talk in the series: Debug/Reboot by Eric Meyer An Event Apart Day 1, 8:30-9:30 am: Real.com Issue: links don’t look like links, headings look like links Issue: pro marketing want ppl to not find free player, but other half want ppl to find it to crush competition. result: a site that [...]
