At my place of work, one of my projects is to develop our department website. Because this is a major website at the university, it has to follow all the rules. These include accessibility, cross-browser support, and conservative design sensibilities. But being a non-technical corporate environment, they want to have their cake and eat it too, so I have to reconcile the JavaScript carousel and scrolling news widgets they wanted with the accessibility concerns for people with text readers or what have you.
I was poking around the internet and found the solution on another page at our university. I believe it was created by our competition, Creative Services, who we’re pretty sure take templates and butcher them to be Mason-branded. The implementation on that page was the answer no matter how much I loathe their cookie-cutter techniques. The answer is <body> classes.
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Before about a month ago I had never touched JavaScript, I thought it unnecessary. I had been able to do everything I ever wanted in CSS, and if some task could only be done in JavaScript, then it was not a task worth persuing. Well as of a month or so ago, I began a project at work to create an invoicing system. I’ll get into the specifics of the project in some other post, but a large part of it was using jQuery to create a true dynamic web application. Picking up jQuery does not strictly imply that you pick up JavaScript, but they are rather close enough that you begin to see the majesty and wonder of being able to manipulate the DOM so freely.
This is a trap. I fell for the trap. (more…)
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I’ve met some people who hold low opinions of IE. Scratch that, I’ve met a whole lot of people for whom IE doesn’t butter their bread. I’m one of these people. These people tend to be web developers, because IE did a number of unfortunate things for people looking to create websites beyond the very baseline. (more…)
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