Some CSS “tricks”

Evolt has a nice article Ten CSS Tricks You May Not Know. Pay particular attention to the reader comments. Some explain better ways to perform some of the “tricks”; others warn against using some, with valid reason.

Remake, redo, regret

At work I’m tasked with renovating our Intranet. No surprise really because we have 1 web developer. Of course we have plenty of project managers :) A deadline of July END is required for specs. A few months ago I began playing around with a new look for the sight, along with improving much of [...]

Opera: browser quirks still continue

While putting together a modest web app for something at the house, I discovered an odd little quirk with Opera. The Web App uses an IFRAME to display content called by the user. It’s very simple really. A list is presented. The user picks an option in the list and there are several buttons to [...]

Opera: Script This!

Breaking with Tradition, I’m posting on a Thursday :) Today I’ve fought long and hard with Opera (7.11) to create a remote scripting library. Well, actually it’s to get the one I use to work with Opera. For many months I’ve used the script built in the O’reilly article: Remote Scripting with IFRAME.

The script [...]

Web development with PHP is different than with Java

Jon Lim links to a posting on Site Point Forums that exposes the difference between web application development with PHP and Java. Java uses a centralized approach for much of the application state, whereas PHP doesn’t. The crux of the difference is this:

In J2EE, the java virtual machine does not get re-loaded in [...]