I’ve recently been giving a much needed makeover to this website, and with touch interfaces becoming more and more common, decided to go with a “tab” style layout for the main menu.
One of the things I wanted to accomplish with this is remove the link and change the styling for the tab corresponding with the current page.
The security company Sophos has blogged about a potential threat to most small business and domestic router owners.
WPS enabled routers sometimes have a PIN to enable quick setup of new clients, the PIN is presented to the router which sends back the full security details enabling the connection to be set up.
The BBC has this week published an article claiming that web pages are, on average, 33% larger than measured in December 2010.
The article cites data on web trends by the HTTP archive showing apparent growth in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and (perhaps most notably) image sizes.
Many web authors I know will use the W3C validators to prove that they have taken the time to ensure their sites comply with the W3C standards – and will often put links on their sites themselves to demonstrate this both to clients and visitors.
For some it can be an important part of proving compliance with legislation relating to disability access- using standards based CSS styles and layout on your HTML content can help screenreaders make sense of content compared to legacy tables and frames based methods.
I spent a considerable amount of time trying to work out why I was able to correctly view treeview controls using the excellent CSS Friendly Control Adapters whilst working locally in Visual Studio 2010, only to find the same project when uploaded reverted to using nested tables in the markup.
The CSSFriendly.dll file was in the bin, the CssFriendlyAdapters.browser file was correctly present in the App_Browsers directory, but still it refused to render using UL and LI controls. Run the project locally and all was correct.