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Allows you to easily add “date picker” calendars to you HTML forms. These calendars make it much quicker, easier and less error prone for people to input certain types of dates.

Handy.

An offshore software development company based in Eastern Europe.

mobibot's main functionality is to capture URLs posted on the channel. The URLs are automatically gathered into a publishable RSS feed.

This article will first introduce persistent UI pitfalls of the 1990s, then outline the benefits of Web standards-based Web site development.

An open source, freely available talking browser extension for the Firefox web browser. Think of it as a screen reader that is designed especially for Firefox.

I'm not 100% sure exactly what this is. I suspect I won't agree with it.

Don't particularly like the methods but always interesting to see what other people do...

To avoid being painted with the same brush as the bad guys, there are a few pitfalls to avoid when it comes to maintaining your most precious treasure, your list of opted-in addresses.

It's a basic example of how helpful a little JavaScript and CSS can be in a form. Instead of the input hints always showing and potentionally cluttering a very simple form, only the hint for the currently focused input will show.

Despite often being deprioritised (or forgotten about altogether) by web developers, the lowly favicon (a contraction of favourite icon) is becoming an increasingly important aspect of brand identity on the web.

At last.fm, all the developers join an irc channel which we use for communications, sharing links, bugs etc.. and into which various system messages are automatically sent via irccat.

An unofficial free X-Chat (UNIX IRC client) build for Windows

Last Monday I had the opportunity to visit the Test Partners, after an invite by Steve Green, to attend an afternoon of screen reader demonstration. I’m exceptionally glad I went

This page is a demonstration of the jQuery SIFR plugin, written by Gilles van den Hoven after seeing Mike's version which he made some time ago. Since there was a need for such a plugin on the jQuery list i thought why not make one

"YouTube offers open access to key parts of the YouTube video repository and user community, via an open API interface and RSS feeds. Using our APIs, you can easily integrate online videos from YouTube's rapidly growing repository of videos into your appl

All you have to do is put the url of the YouTube video in the input box below, and submit! It will return a link in the FLV format, remember to rename the file to .FLV.

Keeping you up to date with the latest on mashups and the new Web 2.0 APIs

Here’s how to get your blog twittering.

Absolutely insane.

Check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more

Flex Templating provides rich client side website templating using MVC (Model-View-Controller). FXT solves a host of problems for using Flex and Flash Player for website development.

There are a number of methods available for getting information about a Macromedia Flash movie picked up by popular search engines such as Google.

"Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, "modularize" it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms."

A free, open-source functional testing tool for automating browser-based tests of web applications. It is pronounced water.

How do you go about choosing an accessible content management system (CMS)? What are the main criteria for success? And how to ensure ease of use for authors including screen reader users?

Maybe that's when you know how you've got a winner: when people use it like mad but can't fully explain the appeal of it to others. See also: weblogs, Flickr.

Collaborative test planning that’s just simple enough.

A web-based visual wiki, a mind-mapping tool, and a non-linear writing tool that allows you to track ideas and the relationships between them.

Sprockets are hierarchically created objects that can be progressively, logically defined and then rendered when needed. Sprockets play nice, coexisting with other code generators and template systems, and provide a great addition to MVC frameworks.

You get the reliability of Yahoo! UI, and the developer friendliess of jQuery. You also receive the benefits of an easily customizable A.P.I. which puts you in control of how you will work with the library.

Creating some kind of definitive documentation about my approach to designing for the Web with the typographic grid as my primary layout tool.

Negotiation is not debate.

a multi–layered javascript experiment

"This tutorial will show that, with the right thought, pop-up windows can be used without upsetting anyone - particularly the person browsing your site." Be good to see a jQuery version...

This, I think, is when it’s time to bring out Flash. Not for the whole app of course, but used in conjunction with HTML/CSS/JS.

ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal.

For years the Adobe Photoshop team has been trying to get away from the traditional death march to a more agile development style. For its CS3 release, it made the jump, with the help of VP Dave Story.

It partly compensates for that by allowing the user to scale/zoom the entire page, including images (which quickly leads to massive horizontal scrolling because of its bad implementation).

The work on show at Non-Format's Make A Fuss exhibition came about after the design duo of Kjell Ekhorn and Jon Forss underwent a process of exploration into the themes of Pop Culture, fashion imagery and an on-going fascination with modular typography.

This presentation will help you see the value of web accessibility and why it makes sense for you, as a web developer, and why it is a must-have for your clients.