Simian Design: Blog-Fu: Link Dump, Part III

A more web-centric dump of links today.

domFunction is one way to run scripts before window.onload. Useful, and slick. (via)
It’s always good to have generic, unobtrusive form validation scripts at your disposal. A most excellent walkthrough of how and why he created this script. (via)
Create custom checkbox elements. Nice, but it might be a little much. (via)
fadomatic is a nifty little javascript class that provides cross-browser alpha-fade effects. Fun. (via)
Clear that event-cache. It’s good for the memory. (via)
There is a new, and super-simple, way to clear floats. PPK writes about this wonderful new method. overflow: auto. Wow. (via)
Zebra Tables is a nice script to accompany data tables.
This Fluid Panel Layout is just awesome. I so love it. The subtle wrapping of the inner, scrolling divs is sweet, as it the drop shadow. Seriously, this might be the neatest link in this whole list.
The minmax script is pretty darn cool as well. Widths, heights, percentages, ems, pixels…it seems to have it covered.
The Multiple Text Applicator is a different way to approach lists and a textarea, but it seems to work pretty OK. Basically it seems to create a list in a textarea that it then breaks apart and makes into a DOM-manipulated input list (create and delete rows of said list). Interesting.
Unobtrusive Dynamic Select Boxes, from Bobby van der Sluis. The semantic code behind it is quite nice.

We have fixed layouts. Fluid Layouts. Elastic layouts. But this latest addition to Elastic is cool, because it uses ems and the max-width property. “But max-width doesn’t work in IE” you say. “expressions” says I. Good article, good technique.
Scrolling drop shadows is a decent concept. I’m not the biggest fan of the fixed-type elements, but this isnt’ bad.
A nice and simple intro to 3-column layouts. (via)
Taming the back button. (via)
An excellent write-up on the various ways to style visited links. Worth checking out.

“It is quite possible, in fact could be preferable, to manage content and distributed authorship without the use of a content management system”. Process really is the most important thing.
Accessibility footnotes is a very intruiging idea. The idea is that you use the longdesc attribute to link to a footnotes section, on the same page, which can be hidden if you choose.
Tired of Lorem Ipsum? Want to use some real text? The ungreek.toolbot engine gives you different texts from which you can generate greeking.
Most standards-based sites don’t need to include tabindex. This article also talks about where and when to use tabindex.

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