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Hiding Table Rows in DHTML

Sunday, October 24th, 2004

One of the more fun things in DHTML is dynamic manipulation of page content. An interesting question that recently came up at work was hiding and displaying a single table row. The solution I came up with is pretty simply - set the CSS STYLE tag of the table row ...

Validating SELECT Boxes in JavaScript

Thursday, October 21st, 2004

One of the more boring tasks in DHTML is validation of form data and specifically of INPUT and SELECT boxes. Since both have a ".value" property, we can save time and use the same code for checking both: if(selectBox.value == null || selectBox.value.length == 0) { alert('Nothing selected in select box!'); } else ...

Nothing Lasts Forever

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

An interesting NewsForge article makes a very good point about web standards and browser wars: In my 2002 book, The Online Rules of Successful Companies, I said it was stupid to design Web sites that would work correctly only with the most popular Web browser. Yes, I told readers, over 90% ...

If you tab through webpages … Pay Up!

Tuesday, September 7th, 2004

According to Slashdot story and the Register Microsoft has been granted a patent for the use of a keyboard TAB key to navigate through a web page. No word yet on the licensing fees for the makers and end-users of those "other" browsers like Mozilla, Opera, etc. And of course Mosaic ...

Sometimes I forget I don’t use IE

Friday, July 16th, 2004

Today I came across an interesting problem with my SprintPCS PictureMail account (service for upload and sharing pictures taken by a cell phone camera). When logging in and viewing my pictures from the web, the pictures were small and B/W ... almost like a cell phone. While talking to the ...