Funny, but True Facts About Novice Developers

The blog post for today is my ramblings about common mistakes that novice web-developers make during their first steps in programming. Just for fun. They: Use W3Schools as a primary source for programming knowledge and do not question a single line of code they find there. (“W3C is a mystery world which I should learn [...]

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New website for Acid.JS Web UI

I am happy to announce that the new website for the Acid.JS Web UI toolkit is already up and running with new design, improved accessibility, better user experience and loads of new and cool features. Here are some of the highlights: The Personal Bar at the top of each page allows you to: Use Google [...]

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Using the IE8 X-UA Compatibility Meta Tag Properly

Internet Explorer 8 is out, with a couple of rendering modes, that will take time to handle. As you know, IE8 renders pages in standards compliance mode by default, and the X-UA compatibility tag has been a good idea of Microsoft, as it gives a chance to developers who have not optimized their websites for IE8 to [...]

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A Word About the PSD to (X)HTML Services on the Internet

“How much costs the “alt” attribue of an image? Should I use it or not? If I have 20 images per page, what is the total cost of the <img /> tags with the ”alt” attribue?” If you are a web-developer, you have certainly noticed the growing bunch of websites that provide the convenient and relatively unexpensive service [...]

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UX – Abuses, Misuses and Misinterpretations of the Term

* This post does not aim to offend real UX engineers, it is just my personal view as a professional developer, based on a 7+ years of experience in the field of web development. In the era of the highly misused and rather vague term Web 2.0, being a UX engineer (also – expert, guru, developer [...]

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