Tuesday February 24, 2009

Today's News

• The iPhone as a Tool for the Web Developer
  Could it be that the iPhone is a developer's dream, with apps available that make a web developer's life much easier? In fact it is just such a tool, and this article will discuss some of the best applications for web developers.

• What's The Time? Using JavaScript to Localize Time Displays
  This article shows how we can we use JavaScript to localize time displays, and includes a free script you can use on your own site!

Featured Goodies

• Firefox and Firebug: A Developer's Swiss Army Knife
  Once in a while a tool comes along that can make a developer's life a bit easier. Introducing Firebug, a free Firefox extension that you need to know about!

• A Quick Tutorial on JavaScript Variable Passing
  For those of you who need a way to pass variables across pages but wouldn't think of using a cookie to do it - try this method using JavaScript!

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Beyond HTML

• How to use CSS for Flickerless Image Replacement
  One major use of CSS is the styling of unordered lists used to hold menu links. This week, you'll learn how to remove the unordered list items, replace them with images and using two images per link, have a hover state that is flicker free in Internet Explorer.

• How to Use CSS to Solve min-width Problems in Internet Explorer
  The lack of support for minimum width in Internet Explorer has caused many problems for web designers. Until now, the only way to emulate min-width is to use either JavaScript or Internet Explorer expressions (indirect JavaScript), but now there's another solution.

Tutorials

• So, You Want A Table, Huh?
  This is an introduction to placing Tables on your Web pages. If you're starting to use tables, start here.

• So, You Want A Table Inside A Table, Huh?
  This is a quick tutorial about putting one inside the other.

Primers

• JavaScript Basics Part 1
  This new JavaScript Primer is the first in a series of articles by our new author Mark Kahn. This article explains what JavaScript is, and shows you how to create your first script!

• JavaScript Basics Part 2
  In the last article, we wrote a simple script that involved variables, alerts, prompts, string concatenation and some basic arithmatic operators. In this week's installment, we learn all about the 'if' and 'else' statements.