web design
Google's custom 404 widget
I've just found out that Google has released a custom 404 widget. The idea is to improve the experience of 404 pages and instead of telling the user that he or she is lost, provide him with something he could really use.
Measuring the length of a string in pixels using JavaScript
There are many situations while developing websites when you need to know how long a text string is: not how many characters it has but how long it is in pixels.
Regular Expressions in JavaScript don't support the single-line mode
Today, while working on a gadget involving some client-side development I have discovered that JavaScript doesn't support the single-line mode for Regular Expressions (Regex). Now why is that bad?
Internet Explorer 8 will support AJAX page navigation
The IE team has recently announced that they have made a few AJAX improvements in the newest version of Internet Explorer. One of such improvements is support for updating the navigation log through AJAX. So when your application uses intensively AJAX to enhance the User Experience, you can still leverage the native browser navigation mechanism by updating the navigation log information.
Minify your JavaScript - and save the KB's for later (Imtech JavaScript Minificator - Free Tool)
Recently I have spent quite some time measuring and tuning the performance of the Imtech SharePoint Enhancement Toolkit: a toolkit that I have built in order to achieve standards compliancy, accessibility and slightly more performance of SharePoint Web Content Management (WCM) solutions.