A Responsive Design Approach for Complex, Multicolumn Data Tables

Jan 092012
 
A Responsive Design Approach for Complex, Multicolumn Data Tables

Posted by Maggie on 12/29/2011 filamentgroup.com :: In responsive web design, one of the toughest design problems to solve is how format complex tabular data for display on smaller screens. In this post, we’ll explore an experimental approach to rendering a complex table, using progressive enhancement and responsive design methods, that displays comfortably at a wide range of screen sizes, provides quick access to the data, and preserves the table structure so that data can still be compared across columns. We’ve been batting around the [read more]

HTML5 Fundamentals

Oct 132011
 
HTML5 Fundamentals

Grace Walker, IT Consultant, Walker Automated Services | ibm.com/developerworks/ :: Summary:  Get an overview of HTML5 and some of the new tags, and see how CSS3 enhances the look and feel of a web site. Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee pointed out that the critical Human Computer Interaction functions are of greater importance to a site visitor than any other aspect of a Rich Internet Application (RIA). Foremost among these are the elements used to exchange information and data between client and server. Every aspect of [read more]

CSS Selectors: Should You Optimize Them To Perform Better?

Oct 072011
 
CSS Selectors: Should You Optimize Them To Perform Better?

by Steven Bradley on Monday, October 3rd, 2011 in CSS :: For the last few weeks I’ve been looking at different css selector patterns. One thing I haven’t mention is the efficiency of the selectors, something Chad commented about on the very first post in the series. I had originally intended on adding a link or two about selector efficiency in one of the posts, but completely forgot. Instead I’ll offer this post, along with those links I had originally intended on including. Here are [read more]

The details and summary elements – HTML5

Oct 062011
 
The details and summary elements - HTML5

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 by Tom Leadbetter :: How often have you had to write some JavaScript to create an interactive widget that shows and hides some content? You might’ve even downloaded a whole JavaScript library to achieve such an effect. Well, it’s time to rejoice! HTML5 provides a way to create this toggle feature with just a few lines of HTML and no JavaScript in sight (depending on the browser, of course, but we’ll come to that later). And so we introduce to you the [read more]

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