Sometimes there are cases within development where a specific CSS hack may need to be applied to have a design render correctly across all browsers. Usually this can be avoided by evaluating your initial design and implementation of various CSS methods. I find this scenario occurs often in my workplace when ever markup is contracted out and returned, most times I find myself hacking the returned...

JQuery is growing rapidly and becoming a house hold name in the field of user interaction frameworks.  One quick example that I am sharing but also to document for future use, is that of the Links with URL Previewing capabilities.  To make this work you will need a version of JQuery as well as the screen capture of the intended link target, in my example, I use two of my sites, this one (tommycraig.com)...

How to make XHTML links that popup a new window and degrade gracefully using the jQuery JavaScript Library. With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has become a bit trivial, if not annoying, to standardize. I always look for a consistent, unobtrusive approach that degrades gracefully; and since JQuery is becoming the scripting language of choice I...