By Steven Datt on 11 January 2012
From January 1st 2012, Microsoft started to phase out Internet Explorer 6 with forced automatic upgrades.
This marks a turning point in the world of web development as designers and developers no longer need to dread seeing “Support for IE6″ in their design briefs.
Microsoft has stated that IE6 users from Australia and Brazil will be the … Read more about ‘End of IE6 - Web developers around the world rejoice!’
By Steven Datt on 14 April 2011
Recently I had to reinstall Windows 7, and whenever I need to reinstall or format a drive I always get that really apprehensive feeling of “Did I back up everything I need?” Usually I do, but this time I not only forgot my Chrome bookmarks but my Firefox ones too! I must have spent an … Read more about ‘Web design resource: COLOURlovers’
By Steven Datt on 9 March 2011
My colleague Paul and I have been discussing a feature of the jQuery library that really helps when adding events to a web page.
Historically using the click event or binding events to dynamic content could be tricky. This is because it’s possible to bind more than one event to an element. Care needs to be … Read more about ‘To ‘live’ or not to ‘live’?’
By Steven Datt on 7 January 2011
Here’s something I picked up by experimentation during the development of a CRUD system, which managed users, inventory, orders and reservations. The question was, how do I have page specific forms to add, update, and delete entries?
The answer was the accordion.
The problem with using the accordion in this way from a usability perspective is it … Read more about ‘Saving jQuery accordion state on post’
By Steven Datt on 6 December 2010
This is my first blog post for Webcredible - I’ve just recently joined the team here. My name is Steven Datt; I’ve recently completed a degree at Roehampton in Web & Multimedia computing, and I’m a web developer to the core. I can’t say just how excited I am to have landed this job, not … Read more about ‘Increase the clickable area of links using CSS’