http://www.agum.com/web The Web Dev Blog Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:47:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven't posted in a while, so let's see if I can make up for that by posting two different CSS tips today. These are more on the intermediate level side. If you're an advanced CSS developer you may already know about these. Today I bring you: Elements' widths calculations in CSS ... http://www.agum.com/web/2008/05/09/css-tips-widths-calculations-and-links-with-icons/ For anybody who has ever coded any JavaScript at all, they are no doubt familiar with events such as "onclick", "onmouseover", "onmousemove", and more. In old HTML web pages, it was very common to add these attributes to <a> tags to achieve some special effects. Later on, browsers begin to support ... http://www.agum.com/web/2008/03/21/javascript-using-event-listeners-attaching-handlers-on-page-load-and-domcontentloaded/ To be honest, I just ran into an issue that I thought was fairly ridiculous. Internet Explorer restricts you to a maximum of 32 @import statements in your CSS file. For the less advanced developers, you can import another CSS file from within one of your CSS files. Consider it like a ... http://www.agum.com/web/2008/03/11/internet-explorer-issue-maximum-of-32-css-import/ CSS provides an interesting property called z-index, that determines what element appears "on top", on a page. You can tell that this was put in the CSS standards because of absolute positioning. Imagine the 2D page having X and Y coordinates, and the Z-axis points out of the screen at ... http://www.agum.com/web/2008/03/05/css-z-index-so-what-appears-on-top/ Straight to the point: If you want to get one thing out of this article, get this: In JavaScript, "null" is not the same as "undefined". This was what costed me some debug time recently when working with JavaScript at my job.  I will talk about how I came across this issue, ... http://www.agum.com/web/2008/02/27/javascript-jslint-data-types-null-and-undefined/ So, I was checking my blog's statistics and found it weird how it suddenly had so much fewer visitors and no traffic referral from Google for a couple of days. Then I was reminded that my Wordpress hasn't been updated in a while. So I ran a check in the source ... http://www.agum.com/web/2008/02/13/special-announcement-badware-is-gone/ What a long title for a post! And it sums up what I'm writing about this time. I'm going to talk about a semi-commonly known CSS trick, as well as a potential problem with Internet Explorer 6 with it and the fix for that. Most advanced CSS coders/web designers will ... http://www.agum.com/web/2008/01/17/css-absolute-position-in-a-relative-block-and-ies-haslayout-property/ This is a beginner's guide to setting up an environment to start doing web applications development in PHP. If you are anything past the beginner level, this article may not be any beneficial to you at all; so you may stop reading here. A friend of mine has recently requested me ... http://www.agum.com/web/2007/12/18/php-web-applications-development-a-starter-tutorial/ The Facebook platform has been released for a while now, and believe you me, I've been doing development on it since day 1 of that until now, non-stop. I think I can say with fairly good confidence that I'm an expert Facebook developer in PHP. Facebook applications originally provided something with ... http://www.agum.com/web/2007/09/16/facebook-applications/ As web 2.0 applications get more and more mature, the roles of web designers, web developers and web application developers become more and more blurry. Years ago, web designers simply design web sites. They aren't very different from traditional print designers. Sure, some of them might not only do the design, ... http://www.agum.com/web/2007/08/03/where-do-you-draw-the-line-between-designer-and-developer/