That Standards Guy is the online persona of Karl Dawson, a web developer living and working in Ipswich, England.
I'm a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers and the Web Standards Group and team member at Accessites—an awards site to recognise accessible and usable websites.
I specialise as a front-end developer and worry about the minutae of semantic (X)HTML and CSS, accessibility, microformats, typographic rhythm and grid design. I also care about the user experience and remind myself constantly of visitor site goals when working with clients and their aims.
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Via CSS-Tricks. Flexigrid is a lightweight but rich data grid with re-sizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an XML-based data source using Ajax to load the content. I’ve used the jQuery tablesorter plugin in the past but Flexigrid goes a little further with the Ajax functionality.
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
I like jQuery. It’s written for designers, has good documentation and examples, it’s quick to write and has an active developer community producing some nice plugins. Noupe has collated 45 plugins for your perusal but I suspect your mileage in terms of unobtrusiveness and web accessibility may vary.
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
There are several “lightbox” solutions out there and now you have one more to evaluate. Michael J. I. Jackson has released Shadowbox.js, a cross-browser, cross-platform, cleanly-coded and fully-documented media viewer application written with YUI-flavoured JavaScript.
