Advanced CSS Design Resources – last-child.com

The standardistas were abuzz a year ago with hopeful predictions for the coming year. Visions of sugar plums dropping rounded corners, AJAX, and alpha transparent pngs danced through their heads. 2006 has been a great year for web development. Did we get what we wanted? Did we get too much of what we wanted? Further, [...]

Gez Lemon and Steve Faulkner have published an excellent description of how screen readers react to AJAX and what you can do to make your AJAX-powered pages more accessible. Making AJAX work with screen readers is a comprehensive description of the mechanics behind screen reader behavior, workarounds, and theory. Hats off to these programmers for [...]

Enter…. the server-side, AJAX powered blink. I can’t wait for Marquee 2.1

I sat next to Adrian Cockcraft on the plane up to San Jose yesterday. He just finished the ETech conference in San Diego. He told me about his concept of bringing the Web 2.0 infrastructure to mobile appliances with some consistency. FLORWAX uses flash with AJAX like behaviors built on the Ruby on Rails platform. [...]

This is a difficult book to read for non-javascript programmers. If you are more comfortable with HTML and CSS, I’d recommend reading Jeremy Keith’s DOM Scripting first. Keith explains the theories behind this book. That said, I did learn enough from DHTML Utopia to not look like a complete idiot during my job interview with [...]