Calling FQL with the Facebook
Advantages Of FQL Over The Facebook API Methods The data-gathering capabilities of FQL are identical to many of the API calls. However, before dismissing FQL as redundant, it is important to recognize...
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Control Your Tab Order and Cursor Focus
A form control is said to have focus if the cursor is resting on it. Form controls naturally acquire focus following the sequence of their location in the HTML source code. For instance, the default...
View ArticleAbout Submit & Reset Buttons
We should never, ever, use a Reset button; it’s far too easy for a visitor to hit it accidentally, thereby clearing several minutes of data entry. And just how often does a visitor deliberately want to...
View ArticleCSS3 and Its Adversaries
One of the amazing things about the development of web technologies is that they were relatively anarchic. Unlike the development of traditional GUI systems, which were created behind the closed doors...
View ArticleUnderstanding RDFa
Since microformats typically don’t try to solve specific cases for niche fields, RDFa picks up where microformats leave off by adding an open-ended mechanism for extending the semantics of markup...
View ArticleChoosing Between an FBML or IFrame
One of the strategic decisions that you need to make when you create your Facebook application is deciding whether to use FBML or an IFrame for your canvas page. The issue is more than just an...
View ArticleIntroduction to CSS Escape Sequences
Regardless of where they appear, string values in CSS behave in a similar way. The most important thing to remember about them is that they are not HTML. This means, for instance, that inserting...
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Too Light for Print
If you thought you had a reasonable amount of control over the color of your typography using CSS, you thought wrong. One of the absolute flakiest, inconsistent issues you will ever encounter in CSS is...
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What Does “Support” Mean?
Unfortunately for us web designers and developers, not all web surfers use the latest and greatest versions of their browsers. Some folks are hesitant to upgrade, others don’t know they should upgrade,...
View ArticleUnderstanding Digital Data
Digital data is able to represent most media types, whether text, sound, image, moving image, or new media types such as hypertext or relational databases, in a unified way. In the end, everything is...
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