When hiring a front-end developer, what specific skills and practices should you test for? What is a good metric for evaluating their skill in HTML, CSS and Javascript? Obviously, table-less semantic HTML and pure CSS layout are probably the key skills. But what about specific techniques? Should he/she be able to effortlessly mock up a ...
This may be a dumb question, but between a http POST and GET, what are the differences from a security perspective? Is one inherently more secure then another? I realize that POST doesn't expose information on the URL but is there any real value in that or is it just security through obscurity? What is the best practice here? Edit: Over...
I know this won't be a popular question, because a lot of web designers want to assume that their craft is difficult and valuable. IT IS. But I do not believe that it is difficult because HTML and CSS are difficult to master, I believe its difficult because being a good creative designer is difficult. Please resist the urge to reflexive...
I was given one big JPG of the HTML interface. Now I need to break it down into pieces and assemble them with html table. Without a slicer it's pretty arduous and error prone. I do not have photoshop or firework, does anybody know of any free utilities that I can use? ...
I know how to send mails using the Microsoft Enterprise Library 2.0 using a text formatter. But these emails are always in plain text. Is there any way with entlib 2.0 to send these mails in HTML format? ...
I have an img tag in my webapp that uses the onload handler to resize the image: <img onLoad="SizeImage(this);" src="foo" > This works fine in Firefox 3, but fails in IE7 because the image object being passed to the SizeImage() function has a width and height of 0 for some reason -- maybe IE calls the function before it finishes loadi...
I'm looking for best practices for performing strict (whitelist) validation/filtering of user-submitted HTML. Main purpose is to filter out XSS and similar nasties that may be entered via web forms. Secondary purpose is to limit breakage of HTML content entered by non-technical users e.g. via WYSIWYG editor that has an HTML view. I'm ...
Basically I am looking to accomplish something similar to the affect that yelp uses to have the map follow you down the page on their search results page but I'd rather have it be instantaneous rather than have it catch up a few seconds after you scroll. I also don't want to just set the position to "fixed" because I want it to scroll u...
In my code, I want to view all data from a CSV in table form, but it only displays the last line. How about lines 1 and 2? Here's the data: 1,HF6,08-Oct-08,34:22:13,df,jhj,fh,fh,ffgh,gh,g,rt,ffgsaf,asdf,dd,yoawa,DWP,tester,Pattern 2,hf35,08-Oct-08,34:12:13,dg,jh,fh,fgh,fgh,gh,gfh,re,fsaf,asdf,dd,yokogawa,DWP,DWP,Pattern 3,hf35,08-Oct-08...
Is there a way to make sure a (large, 300K) background picture is always displayed first BEFORE any other content is shown on the page? On the server we have access to PHP. ...
I am using the wysiwyg editor TinyMCE and I have stripped out most of the functions to create a simpler version. However, I need the make the formatting as basic as possible as well, e.g., instead of <p> tags i need to use <br /> tags. Also, I would like it to not convert ' in ’ as I will be using the output in Flash. The only edi...
The question is, should we design applications/forms using headers or stick to spans and divs? When the world was using html to link documents, these header tags looked like the 'Table of contents'. In the new era where html is used for applications, using header tags in the orthodox fashion (i.e. h1 contains h2, h2 contains h3 ...) does...
Is it possible using a server side xml parser to have it create a html blob that it is then included in a existing html page? Thanks ...
I know you can do a trick of putting an HTML element on top of a Silverlight app, but that will not work full screen. Is there anyway to show an html page inside a Silverlight application? ...
I'm writing an asp.net application. I have a textbox on a webform and I want to force whatever the user types to upper case. I'd like to do this on the front end. You should also note that there is a validation control on this textbox, so I want to make sure the solution doesn't interfere with the asp.net validation. Clarification: It a...
Assuming a fluid layout is not an option (since that is a different discussion all together), what is the recommended width for a site layout? What are the pros and cons of different sizes? ...
I have an "ldquo", "rdquo" and several other entities under my RSS feed. Seems like if I add <!DOCTYPE rss [ <!ENTITY % HTMLspec PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-special.ent"> %HTMLspec; below the xml tag and above the rss tag then I'll be able to include those entities....
Hi guys, how can i figure out the last modified date of a html file im importing into my web app? The html file is on another server and different users can make updates, when i retrieve the page i want to be able see when it was last updated so i can label the updated date on my homepage. I ...
I know many people who use computers every day, who do not know how to select multiple items in a HTML select box/list. I don't want to use this control in my pages any more: Please pick 3 options: <select name="categories" size="10" multiple="yes"> So what user-friendly alternatives do you suggest? Perhaps have 10 tickboxes...or mayb...
My new boss went to a speech where Deliverance, a kind of proxy allowing to add skin to any html output on the fly, was presented. He decided to use it right after that, no matter how young it is. More here : http://www.openplans.org/projects/deliverance/introduction In theory, the system sounds great when you want a newbie to tweak y...