UTF-8 is your friend – Part 2

In part 1 of this blog post series we have spoken about integrating the UTF-8 character set in your server side scripts. In this second part, we will introduce how to integrate UTF-8 in your database using MySQL as an example.

After having collected your data using PERL (or any other programming language) and successfully transformed the . . . → Read More: UTF-8 is your friend – Part 2

UTF-8 is your friend – Part 1

This is the first part of a series of three blog posts explaining how crucial it is to implement correctly UTF-8 character encoding in your web application, when dealing with content in various languages or encodings.

Having to deal with websites and their respective character encodings is not as easy a task as it may sound. This . . . → Read More: UTF-8 is your friend – Part 1

Validating HTML and CSS with W3C’s markup validation service

As part of our milestone to reach to a rock-stable version of HTTPMon and get away from the current beta version, we have been recently cleaning and optimizing the HTML and CSS code. All our HTML code uses the HTML version 4.01 strict document type definition (DTD) and it is therefore possible to easily validate it using . . . → Read More: Validating HTML and CSS with W3C’s markup validation service

Hijacking links with Hijax

Hijax, a buzzword originating from Jeremy Keith, basically describes the way how to make use of JavaScript to intercept (or hijack) hyperlinks on your website to pass them to AJAX in order to load just a part of your website with the respective content instead of reloading the whole page.

For accessibility reasons, we apply the progressive . . . → Read More: Hijacking links with Hijax