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• Advanced Debugging with JavaScript

  JavaScript debuggers help find and squash errors in code. To become an advanced debugger, you’ll need to know about the tools available to you, the typical JavaScript debugging workflow, and code requirements for effective debugging. In this article, Read More... Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:15 PM from A List Apart | 0 Comments Filed under: Browsers, Scripting

• Progressive Enhancement with JavaScript

  Our introductory series on progressive enhancement and the ways it can be implemented concludes with a look at the mindset needed to implement PE in JavaScript, and a survey of best practices for doing so. Read More... Posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 7:28 PM from A List Apart | 0 Comments Filed under: HTML and XHTML, Scripting

• Progressive Enhancement with CSS

  Organize multiple style sheets to simplify the creation of environmentally appropriate visual experiences. Support older browsers while keeping your CSS hack-free. Use generated content to provide visual enhancements, and seize the power of advanced selectors Read More... Posted Saturday, October 18, 2008 7:43 AM from A List Apart | 0 Comments Filed under: CSS, HTML and XHTML, Scripting

• Understanding Progressive Enhancement

  Steven Champeon turned web development upside down, and created an instant best practice of standards-based design, when he introduced the notion of designing for content and experience instead of browsers. In part one of a series, ALA’s Gustafson refreshes Read More... Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 9:55 PM from A List Apart | 0 Comments Filed under: Browsers, CSS, HTML and XHTML, Industry, Information Architecture, Scripting, State of the Web, Usability

• Test-Driven Progressive Enhancement

  Starting with semantic HTML, and layering enhancements using JavaScript and CSS, is supposed to create good experiences for all. Alas, enhancements still find their way to aging browsers and under-featured mobile devices that don't parse them properly. Read More... Posted Friday, September 19, 2008 6:43 PM from A List Apart | 0 Comments Filed under: Scripting

• CSS Sprites2 - It's JavaScript Time

  In 2004, Dave Shea took the CSS rollover where it had never gone before. Now he takes it further still—with a little help from jQuery. Say hello to hover animations that respond to a user's behavior in ways standards-based sites never could before. Hide Read More... Posted Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:38 AM from A List Apart | 0 Comments Filed under: CSS, HTML and XHTML, Scripting

• Getting Out of Binding Situations in JavaScript

  Every wonder who you really are? Congratulations! You have a lot in common with JavaScript. Learn once and for all how to train your JavaScript to remember who it is and what it's doing. Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is Read More... Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:40 AM from A List Apart | 0 Comments Filed under: Scripting

• Getting Started with Ruby on Rails

  The "how" of Ruby on Rails: Hivelogic's Dan Benjamin prepares non-Rails developers, designers, and other creative professionals for their first foray into Rails. Learn what Ruby on Rails is (and isn't), and where it fits into the spectrum of web development Read More... Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008 10:59 AM from A List Apart | 0 Comments Filed under: Scripting, Server Side

• Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails

  The "why" of Ruby on Rails comes down to productivity, says Michael Slater. Web applications that share three characteristics—they're database-driven, they're new, and they have needs not well met by a typical CMS—can be built much more quickly with Ruby Read More... Posted Saturday, April 19, 2008 11:18 PM from A List Apart | 0 Comments Filed under: Project Management and Workflow, Scripting

• Take Control of Your Maps

  It is now possible to replicate Google Maps’ functionality with open source software and produce high-quality mapping applications tailored to your design goals. Paul Smith shows how. Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Read More... Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 9:19 PM from A List Apart | 0 Comments Filed under: Scripting

• Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8

  For seven years, the @DOCTYPE@ switch has stood designers and developers in good stead as a toggle between standards mode and quirks mode. But when IE7, with its greatly improved support for standards, "broke the web," it revealed the flaw in our toggle. Read More... Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:05 AM from A List Apart | 0 Comments Filed under: Browsers, CSS, HTML and XHTML, Scripting