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Web accessibility for cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties
By Ian Pouncey · Wednesday, August 4, 2010 4
The number of people with cognitive disabilities using the Web is comparable to those with visual impairments using the Web, yet the factors involved in making sure a web site is accessible to those with cognitive disabilities are much less well understood. In this article well will redress the balance, giving you a gentle introduction to the area of web accessibility for cognitive disabilities. Read more…
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Building a custom HTML5 video player with CSS3 and jQuery
By Ionut Colceriu · Wednesday, July 28, 2010 50
In this article we make full use of the HTML5 video element and associated media elements API — along with jQuery and some CSS3 magic — to make a fully-customizable, themeable HTML5 video player. To round things off, the player is encapsulated as a jQuery plugin for easier reuse. Read more…
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Mobile-friendly: The mobile web optimization guide
By Bruce Lawson · Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4
Everyone wants to make their sites “mobile friendly” these days — the mobile web market is becoming big business. This article takes you through the different available strategies for making your websites mobile browser compatible, sharing many tips and tricks along the way. Read more…
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Opera Mobile 10.1 labs release for Maemo
By Anders · Wednesday, July 21, 2010 4
Last week, we released the first beta of Opera Mobile 10.1 for S60. Those with Maemo devices don't need to feel left out though: we have been working hard at keeping the Maemo code in step with the other Opera Mobile releases, and we are proud to present another labs release for the Nokia N900 and N810/N800 – Opera Mobile 10.1 beta. Read more…
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Cross-browser CSS box-shadows
By Rustam Gaffanov · Thursday, July 15, 2010 20
CSS3 box-shadow is a very useful property — creating drop shadows programmatically can save web designers a lot of time in image editing software. However we have a problem if we need to replicate those shadows in Internet Explorer, which does not support this property. In this article, we present a cross-browser solution that uses box-shadow in supporting browsers, and IE filters to fake the drop shadows in IE. Read more…
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The Opera Widgets Mobile Emulator
By Patrick H. Lauke · Monday, July 12, 2010 2
Making sure that your widget looks great and works exactly as it should on mobile devices can often be a tedious process. With Opera Mobile 10 for Windows, Linux and Mac we've included the Opera Widgets Mobile Emulator - a native application that can be run directly from your desktop machine, meaning developing mobile-optimized widgets has never been easier. Read more…
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An HTML5 <audio> radio player
By Trygve Lie · Tuesday, July 6, 2010 7
In this article Trygve Lie takes you through the basics of the HTML5 Read more…
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Web Workers rise up!
By Daniel Davis · Thursday, July 1, 2010 11
In this article you will meet Web Workers, one of many technologies that, together with HTML5, are forming the next generation of the open web. Web Workers allow you to create separate processes in your JavaScript to deal with number crunching, while your main process remains as responsive as possible for the users of your applications. Read more…