AJAX Http Requests
AJAX Uses HTTP Requests In traditional JavaScript coding, if you want to get any information from a database or a file on the server, or send user information to a server, you will have to make an HTML form and … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Web Quality – Internationalization
The Internet is International The Internet is International With the Internet follows an absolute requirement to interchange data in a multiplicity of languages, which in turn utilize a bewildering number of characters. H. Alvestrand, The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), … Continue reading
Web Quality – Accessibility (WAI)
An accessible web site is a web site that can be used by disabled users. Disabled users are users with disabilities or bad user conditions. The Web Accessibility Initiative – WAI WAI (created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) … Continue reading
Web Quality – Readability
Proper use of fonts and colors will make your website easier to read. Mind the Color Contrasts Black text on a white background, or white text on a black background, is best for people with viewing disabilities, and for display … Continue reading
Web Quality – Style Sheets
Using Style Sheets is important to web page quality. Don’t Use the Font Tag The text size used to display information on a web page should be set using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Do not use the HTML tag. Using … Continue reading
Web Quality – Important HTML Elements
are important tags to web page quality. The Element Doctype means a “document type declaration” (DTD). All HTML and XHTML pages should use a element to define which HTML version it conforms to. The doctype defines which version of HTML … Continue reading
Web Quality – Standards
Writing your pages to the web standards will improve the quality of your site. The HTML Standard XHTML is the latest HTML standard. XHTML is a reformulation of HTML 4.01 in XML. Writing your pages to the latest HTML 4.01 … Continue reading
Twitter is Down!
Twitter is down. Super down. The status blog is silent on the issue, although the error message untruthfully says the site is down for database maintenance. If it was maintenance, it would be noted on the status blog. This is … Continue reading