Acid.JS Components Help and Manuals are now Available Online

I am happy to announce that the installation and  customization instructions, troubleshooting tips, API references and user / developer manuals of all Acid.JS Web 2.0 components are now available online at http://help.acidjs.wemakesites.net/. The new website will be updated with the latest changes to the manual anytime a new version of a control is released, so make sure you [...]

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Portable Editions of Legacy, Current and Upcoming Popular Browsers

If you are careful of how your new website looks on legacy, current or upcoming browsers, below is a list containing download links to past, current and upcoming versions of several popular browsing platforms. Browsers marked with [P] are portable editions and can be used along with other versions. [L] means the latest (as of July 2010) official release. Internet Explorer 5.5 [...]

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Win a Free Component From Acid.JS

Would you like to participate in the new Acid.JS survey and maybe win a free component of your choice? All you have to do is to visit this page and answer a few questions. It won’t take more than three minutes and the results will be of great importance for the further development of Acid.JS Web 2.0 Component Library. [...]

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Version 6.0 of Acid.JS Web 2.0 Component Library is Out

I am happy to announce that the vew major version of Acid.JS Web 2.0 Component Library has been released with important updates – performance improvements, skin tweaks, addressed and fixed bugs, etc. of all included controls. There’s also a brand-new one – the state-of-the art AJAX ribbon bar. Download the latest version of Acid.JS or take a look what’s [...]

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RibbonBar AJAX Web Component

RibbonBar.XML is a state-of-the-art, skinnable and fully AJAX driven component that is ready for use on any website. What you can you do with a MS Office like ribbon bar in web environment? Whether use it for navigation, associate it with your WYSIWYG editor, display links to your favorite social websites or simply build your [...]

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Summer Discounts on Scripts and Components from Acid.JS

Are you planning to purchase more than one component from Acid.JS? If you choose to buy three or more you can save roughly 50% on each component if you order your personalized Creative Web 2.0 Bundle. And more – with each purchase (including the Creative Web 2.0 Bundle) you will receive one free component as [...]

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A Brief Guide to CSS Specificity

Specificity, also known as ”selectors weight”, is the very emanation of the ”cascadingness” of CSS. A better understanding of this concept will help avoid frustration and solve problems related to inability to override property values without using the magic of the !important flag. In brief, the specificity of CSS selectors is a simple calculation of [...]

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CSS Hacks, Tricks and Proprietary Extensions

Below is a list of CSS hacks that can be used to filter out different browsers in cases when standard CSS does not work or the conditional comments of IE cannot be applied. Internet Explorer 6 * html .elementOrClassName { property: value; } .elementOrClassName { _property: value; } Internet Explorer 7 * + html .elementOrClassName [...]

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CSS Optimization Tips and Tricks

1. Group selectors that share same property values. This will not only decrease the size of your stylesheets, but will make them more maintainable as well.  2. Use shorthand properties, instead of separately defining each property for font, margin, padding, border, background, etc:  element { font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif; [...]

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Debugging IE6 issues in the shell of IE8

As the debugging tool of IETester is quite clumsy and limited, we can debug issues with IE6 directly in the shell of IE8. The only requirement is that we have Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar installed on our machine. Here we go: 1. All versions of IE prior to 8 trigger quirks mode despite of the [...]

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