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Pulp Fiction scene as played by web broswers. Awesome
I haven’t done much design in my short tenure as a web programmer. I’ve dabbled at best. But over the last couple of days, I invested some time with jQuery, jQuery UI, and datatables to come up with a small redesign of our internal workrouter. This is a sample of what it looks like:
I’m now working on getting the datatables plugin to load table data via ajax. I’m excited.
WeFunction.com has a great, detailed list of good design practices for the web. I especially enjoyed the comments on spacing.
On another note, we’ve lately begun thinking about how to best develop for multiple browsers. Is it really as simple as testing our design/functionality on all browsers or is there a solution that should produce more standard results? In our experience thus far, testing in browsers seems the only real solution. I wonder what the best practice is?
I was excited to read this article on “continuous deployment” in terms of software development. Excited because in most respects, we’re already following some of it’s practices. However, I think we here at Frontier could probably stand some more testing and the ability to have the server reject a change based on certain criteria.
Along other lines, Ars technica is reporting that Google chrome should be out for OS X as early as this fall.
Nettuts+ has 10 Rare HTML tags you should now about. Most intriguing to me? #7 fieldset and #4 Address. I don’t use those and, where appropriate, I should.
