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WPtouch: Automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application

WPtouch: Automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application

Posted 22 June 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: Developer Tools | No Comments

More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple’s app store design specs, WPtouch makes your WordPress website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme.
WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application experience [...]

Styling form controls

Posted 09 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: Developer Tools | No Comments

Roger Johansson has an in depth, 2 part look at styling form controls across the different operating systems and browsers. A worthy read if you have ever tried to wrangle submit buttons and input boxes into some form of consistency across browsers while trying to tweak their looks.
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Enhancing forms – Unobtrusive Javascript

Posted 09 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: Developer Tools | No Comments

An excellent example of how to use unobtrusive JavaScript for error checking a form prior to submission. The work is available for download, and at the end of the article is provided a sample form and some exercises to help with your understanding with implementing unobtrusive JavaScript on forms.
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Dynamic Help in Web Forms

Posted 09 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: Developer Tools | No Comments

Luke Wroblewski provides an excellent roundup of different methods being used around the web to provide help with forms. Definitely worth reading as it is a nice collection of patterns to solve the form help issue.
Using some images to capture the different strategies, he provides the good and bad of each method, concluding that there [...]

Web Usability – Accessible Forms

Posted 08 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: Developer Tools | No Comments

A nice overview of forms from the accessibility perspective, with examples of how to layout and markup a form, the appearance and how the layout appears when using a screen reader. If you have never experienced the web from a screen reader, be sure to check out these examples.
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Script.aculo.us Javascript Framework

Posted 06 March 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: Developer Tools | No Comments

script.aculo.us is a JavaScript library built on the Prototype JavaScript Framework, providing dynamic visual effects and user interface elements via the Document Object Model.
It is most notably included with Ruby on Rails, but also provided separately to work with other web application frameworks and scripting languages.
Features
script.aculo.us extends the Prototype Javascript Framework by adding visual effects, [...]

Mootools the compact javascript framework

Posted 06 March 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: Developer Tools | No Comments

MooTools is an open source, compact, and modular object-oriented programming JavaScript web application framework that is made by developers for developers. MooTools makes the process of writing extensible and cross-browser compatible code more efficient, concise and fun.
Benefits
With MooTools, the developer has the advantage of using:

An extensible and modular framework that helps give developers discretion (choice) [...]