When we think of building accessible websites, we tend to focus on the visible disabilities. Juicy Studio has a phenomenal article on Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties.
Luke Wroblewski has a series of good articles that explains the importance of consistant form design in web applications. The articles can be found at:
FotoBuzz Viewlet is a sweet Flash application that allows you to add image annotations to photos on your website. The comments are actually stored inside your images, but mySQL support is promised for the next version. On the server-side, PHP or Python support is required.
[link via Darron Schall]
Alexandre Alapetite has a free PHP module that allows you to handle Contitional HTTP request in PHP. The free library has only one function and lets you handle the different kinds of conditional requests (304, 412), HEAD requests, cache management at client and proxy level and compression of data.
Poodle Predictor lets you see your site like Google does. It simulates search engines and can help predict your Google listings.
As I was struggling with a regular expression the other night, I came across this article at Simon Willisons weblog that solved my problem with Matching newlines using Regular Expressions in JavaScript!
Dashboard Developer has just launched and looks like a good starting point if you are interested in creating Dashboard widgets for Apple’s upcoming Tiger operating system.
We are all meant to shine like children do.
IBM has an article titled – Get dynamic Web content with HTTPRequest – that will show you how to use the XMLHttpRequest object to facilitate the transfer of data between a web page and a server. This is the same technique that is being used in GMail, Google Suggest, and Ta-da Lists.
The ECMAScript Menu System is a very slick implementation of a web-standards based menuing system that relies entirely on the DOM while leaving your markup completely non-presentational.
[link via 456 Berea Street]
