I have read a book entitled “The Art of Rails by Edward Benson” Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. www.wiley.com. Its a must read book if you want to accelerate your knowledge in rails to the next level. In a certain chapter of this book covers about the five different styles of applying AJAX to enhance your web application.
These styles are by no means official standards — the terms are creations of this book — so there are no doubt more ways to organize your code. These five appear to be the predominant ones, however, so provide a good starting point for just about any application type you want to pursue.
Each of these five styles is a different way to approach AJAX, and the code you write for each will have a different look and feel to it. Which one to use is your choice, and mixing more than one style in your application is okay, too. The goal of this chapter isn’t to box you into a single way of coding but rather to make you more conscious about design issues you might otherwise have overlooked.
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Wordpress Themes
1. BlogOhBlog - Wordpress Theme - Merry Christmas
Clean and simple layout with matching snow effect.
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Web page usability is a vital criteria in any web design project as it is this factor that can get repeat visitors to a website. Improving usability of web pages may not be an easy job even for the most skilled web designers. Usability based web designing is all about habit formation, it cant be achieved in one day. The designers need to gradually evolve themselves into designing websites high on usability. The following are some tips that can help web designers to improve website usability:
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The most common problem of the front end web developers or designers is having their output looks and behave the same to different browsers. One of the solutions is using CSS hacks to apply different rules in a specific browser.
A CSS hack is simply an ugly and inelegant way of getting a browser to behave the way you want it to. CSS hacks are typically used to get around specific browser bugs such as IE’s proprietary box model. Unfortunately, the term hack has rather negative connotations and implies that there is a better way of doing something when often there isn’t. Therefore, some people favor the term patch to indicate that it is actually incorrect browser behavior that is being dealt with.
CSS hacks can use filters to apply one rule to one browser and a different rule to another. Alternatively, hacks can use incorrect CSS implementation to “trick” browsers into behaving the way you want them to. In essence, a CSS filter is a specific type of hack used for filtering different browsers. Unfortunately, most people tend to use the generic term hack to describe filters. As such, when people talk about CSS hacks, they are usually talking specifically about filters.
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