After previously reading Web Standards Solutions and adoring it, I’ve been keen to read another book published by Friends of ED. All the buzz about AJAX and the comeback of JavaScript made me pick up DOM Scripting Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
Google released an interesting study about the content of over a billion webpages in their database. It’s nicely seperated into categories of markup, and identifies the most used HTML tags and attributes. I found the comments on the most frequent mistakes very interesting. Obviously many tags are used incorrectly for presentational (instead of semantic) purposes, and many pages are brimming with deprecated elements. A surprising number of pages had specialized tags, and in some cases, there’s no known online documentation that tells which program generated them or for what purpose. It’s a fun read.
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
If you didn’t see it, Tink posted a nice little overview of a couple things you can do with function parameters in AS3. I knew about default params from my experience with other languages, but I find the “…” keyword very intriguing. It lets a function receive any number of optional parameters. The function accesses these parameters through a special Array. Now, I don’t know if I’ll ever use this functionality, but it’ll definitely stay in my toolbox in case I do.
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
While I’ve had problems with Flash’s Inspectable tag in the past, I still actively use it in my daily component development. With highly complex components, Inspectable let’s me finish property definition quicker, and I can spend less time messing with details in the FLA. Just today, I discovered something that speeds things up even more, so I thought I’d share. Read the rest of this entry »
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
