Crossed Browser

I thought it might be worth posting an overview of a short presentation I gave to our development team last Tuesday. The presentation, based John Resig’s talk at @Media 2008 ‘The Why and Which of JavaScript Libraries‘, in which John gave an overview of the popular, open source, client side libraries and highlighted what made them successful. My presentation attempted to distill the key points and explain their relevance to the implementation of JavaScript within our development team. The complete audio and slides from John’s talk can be found on the @media 2008 site.
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The second part of this series discusses how the generic components that were created via the Base library in part one could be easily ported to multiple projects in a manner that involved minimal coding by the developer.
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Happy times! OK, so they get a lot of flak and yes, they pretty much dictate the course of my working life but Microsoft do listen.

You can find out more from Microsoft’s IE Blog: Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8

Some recent experiments with Dean Edward’s excellent Base javascript library has given me an insight into how we can speed up the development of the typical user interface components that we are asked to include in our projects; ones such as tooltips, popups and draggable windows. Read the rest of this entry »

With a 5 week turn-around and an immovable deadline created by the start of a new rail franchise, you might imagine that the good people at Graphico would have felt the heat in creating CrossCountry Trains‘ new website. But no, not a bit of it. Far from going ‘loco’, we found ourselves with a full head of steam confidently riding the rails with our chums CSS and jQuery. From the footplate we saw the coming-of-age for the humble PNG and blew our whistle to celebrate the benefit of “design themes“. All aboard, stoke up the firebox and look out for zebras! Read the rest of this entry »