I’ve recently started working with Groovy on Grails at work. Groovy is a dynamic language that runs on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), and Grails is a high-productivity open-source web-application framework that leverages the Groovy language. Grails follows the “convention over configuration” principle, taking away a lot of the grunt work that goes into creating…
Tag: web design
Drop-shadows with CSS and Javascript
You have probably seen websites that have images with drop-shadows. It gives the image a three-dimensional floating effect. Usually the images are given drop-shadows with an image editing software like Photoshop. In IE, a drop-shadow is easy to achieve using the DropShadow filter. Unfortunately, this method is not standards compliant and only works on Internet…
innerHTML alternative for XHTML documents in Firefox
I finally figured out an alternative to using innerHTML for an XHTML document in Firefox.
This site is XHTML 1.1 Valid
I finally got this site to validate! The folks over here were really helpful, and pointed out that I wasn’t assigning values to my objects’ style attributes properly. For example, I was doing: instead of: The second way is the correct way because it is important to specify units for your attributes. In addition, Firefox…
Live! Preview and XHTML Compatibility
I’ve added a new feature called “Live Preview”. You can see your comment as it will appear, right as you type it. I randomly just came up with the idea yesterday – I figured I could use the same code I have in place for the preview, for the Live Preview as well. I just…
Preview Button and no more Iframes
I have added a “Preview Comments” button to the comment submission form. So now, you’re able to preview your comments before submitting them. The preview will show you your comments exactly as they will appear (after they have been submitted). The other big thing is the removal of iframes. I thought iframes were really freaking…
I have work to do!
Work on this page might slow down for a while. I have a small web designing job coming up. Well, it’s not really a job per se. I go to this forum a lot, and they would like a new design on the front page… So that’s what I’m doing. It should be fun!