After writing an accessible form in XHTML and validating it with a PHP server side script & after that with a Mootools client-side script, I write today about a third way of approaching the subject – using future-to-come HTML5 (by saying that, I really hope to be able to use it waaaay before 2011). The [...]

Validate forms client side with MooTools.

A good way to learn about accessibility is through examples and discussions. In this post I will try to translate the WCAG sometimes-hard-to-get rules into a copy-paste real contact form example.  You can check the test link, download the code and/or keep reading a bit more. As I mentioned before, contact forms are in great [...]

When it comes to accessibility, every coder is a small guru. On the websites where I bid for projects everybody is an accessibility and usability expert (including myself, I admit). Altough these rules exist for quite a while there are coders who find it difficult to implement them – so I am trying to find [...]

Phonegap is a nice framework for webdevelopers. It helps to build a native iPhone (and other devices) app using what you already know. But the submission to Appstore  can be a pain due to some app reviewers that consider PhoneGap as “private api”. The single way to avoid this is to change any reference to [...]

Following the previous post, we will see today how to check the syntax for JS. In this case we will need a bundle wrote some time ago by Andrew Dupont here. (read the article , scroll down and download the bundle).  Install the bundle. In this moment you are almost good to go, as the bundle [...]

If you need to import your Gmail contacts into the local Address Book, to be used by Mail for example, here are the simple steps you need to make. Open safari and login to your Gmail account. In the left side, under the mailboxes you have the menu Contacts. Click on it and it will [...]

As the guys from Mozilla say “The JavaScript shell provides a simple way to run scripts in batch mode or an interactive environment for exploratory programming.” So basically you can create some tests for you app based on javascript without needing a browser, but using rhino. With Mootools is a little complicated, as it needs [...]

This tutorial will show us how to get the last news of a blog and put it on our site. We may have the case when our site is not fully driven by a blog engine, but we have one, so we want to put on the ‘News’ section the last posts, or we want [...]

Mootools ‘ajax’ request for local files or how to make ajax requests to a local file without the need of a web server.