Monday, January 25, 2010

A Markup That Could Have Big Implications for SEO | WebProNews

This article by WebProNews
says that RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is becoming increasingly used to help search engines determine relevance and provide "rich snippets" in search results which are shown to increase click-throughs.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Copy and paste images into web-based WYSIWYG editors

PicturePaste allows you to copy and paste images from the Windows clipboard into web-based rich text editors, such as those used by gmail, google docs, blogger, wordpress etc.

Sitepoint have done a write-up about it.

Might mean that for some people the commercial plug-in for TinyMCE is no longer necessary.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Thomas Landauer: Preventing Spam in Form Submissions without Using a CAPTCHA

Preventing Spam in Form Submissions without Using a CAPTCHA
an article by Thomas Landauer

Magic Zoom examples

Magic Zoom examples

URL Rewriting for Beginners - Added Bytes

URL Rewriting for Beginners - Added Bytes

Show If

I don't advocate some of the suggested uses, or agree with the solutions implemented by all of the testimonials, but I might need to come back to Show If some day...?

frequency decoder - accessible, unobtrusive slider demo

A rather nice set of accessible, unobtrusive slider controls on Frequency Decoder.

PHP QR Code Generator

PHP QR Code Generator

The rules of email engagement | Blog | Econsultancy

The rules of email engagement | Blog | Econsultancy

Monday, January 11, 2010

Removing the element outline on links without hurting keyboard users

This article by Patrick Lauke suggests
a:hover, a:active { outline: none; }
to remove the annoying outlines left behind "off-lefted" link elements without leaving keyboard-only users without any clue as to which element they currently have selected.

Friday, January 08, 2010