CSS
Anything and everything to do with Cascading Style Sheet (CSS).
Today I had the pleasure of giving a presentation at the //BUILD conference in Anaheim, CA. Given that this conference is all about Windows 8 I was one of the few non windows session at the conference. Bellow is the abstract from my talk entitled. For those of you that weren’t lucky enough to get to come to //BUILD there is good news! All the session will be recorded and posted online and that includes mine. You can find a my session session on Channel 9 (although it may take a day or so to get posted). If you want...
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Many of us us roll over images on our navigation or other items in our web pages. One thing that can be problematically is users with slow connections or larger images can cause a flashing when you roll over when the file is being downloaded. One way to solve this is to use JavaScript to preload your images on the page. However, there is a much easier way to do it with just a little CSS. The first thing to do is to create the images for the roll overs. Once you have these don what you need to...
When Microsoft first released its AJAX framework codename Atlas, at the time, they also released a collection of community created controls called the AJAX Control Toolkit. This toolkit has become quite popular and highly useful, however, I found that one of the most popular controls that I was using was the collapsible panel extender. This gave the user an easy way to create a simple collapsing effect within their website. This is nice but I found I wanted to implement this effect on sites that I was not using any of the other AJAX features. So I set out to...