Showing posts with label unobtrusive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unobtrusive. Show all posts

November 17, 2009

Progressive enhancement example: Language Selection

It's easy to get lost in the Internet while looking for information. It's one of its greatest points: There are thousands of millions of websites out there. Information is the key purpose of the net and nobody can deny it.

But, as in many other cases, quantity does not equal quality. Poor designed websites, too bloated, with many inlined styles or little semantics (if none), are begging for trouble: Their information have lost accessibility.

November 11, 2009

Frames without frames. AJAH selective insertion

And W3C said Let there be frames, and there was frames, and they were used (and abused) and it was good, and W3C said This is right (we're gonna deprecate them soon) and there was much rejoicing.

Is not new that web developers hate all that's made with frames. They're a burden nobody wants to carry, so confusing, so "nineties", so... well, deprecated, that's it. So you may think I'm just delving into the past. Frames, as we know it, are dissapearing into extinction but, the main idea, more or less, is still needed nowadays.

June 04, 2009

swfLink: Simple, unobtrusive, Flash embedding

Update:Now returns the resulting <object> on success

I was in need of some simple Javascript to add SWF objects. Hoping for a simple, cross-browser, ie-proof, eolas-respectful and graceful-degradable solution is a difficult praise to attend, so I began, as always, to write my own.

The routine is so simple because it does nothing more than add a <object> tag so it can embed the flash movie. No plugin or software checks. I didn't need them.