Author: rchapin

Building advanced web applications and frameworks often involves getting incompatible pieces from various projects to work together cohesively inside a majority of browsers. The more advanced the functionality, the more of a problem this becomes especially when you’re trying to support older and very broken browsers such as MSIE 6.0.

At the present moment, I’m involved in building a substantial ecommerce project with a desktop style interface that includes popup dialogs, drag and drop lists, multiple tabbed interfaces among other → Continue reading “On WYSIWYIG HTML Editors and the jQuery.UI web user interface toolkit.”

Here is a great resource for free CSS templates and web site designs. Based on the licensing information on the site, it seems as though they are all either GPL/GNU or Creative Commons.→ Continue reading “Free CSS Template Resource”

What follows are links to two different blog articles by Steve Reynolds about both Flash and Javascript packages. The coolest looking package, not just charts is the Raphael Javascript library.

• 7 Flash Charting Solutions
• 5 Javascript Chart Alternatives

We have a client that is in need of some dynamic Flash charts. After some googling I came accross the Open Flash Chart project. It seems to be an active project with a decent following. Moreover, there are a number of other commercial products out there that are using the LGPL licensed code.

It looks to be a fairly mature code base that provides an enormous amount of customization without editing any ActionScript code or recompiling any .swf files. → Continue reading “Open Source Flash Charting Package: Open Flash Chart”

Yermo has recently found a number of sites/articles/resources regarding CSS frameworks and writing CSS in and OOP (object oriented programming) fashion:

• http://www.blueprintcss.org/
• Object Oriented CSS: How and Why

Here is an online tool that will enable you to validate the HTML for an entire website.

Very handy when doing SEO work. → Continue reading “Validate the HTML for an Entire Website”

Information Week has posted an article that indicates many people are having problems upgrading their Macs to Snow Leopard. It looks like Apple is trying to pull a Vista on it’s user base: release an update that isn’t ready and is going to make more headaches for users than solve problems. At the bottom of this article is a link to “100 Incompatible Mac Apps” for Snow Leopard (here is a link to the Wiki with → Continue reading “Snow Leopard Upgrade Causing ‘Spinning Wheel Of Death’”

Here’s a great utility on DSLreports.com for viewing Verizon FIOS availability.→ Continue reading “Verizon Fios Availability Map”