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10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques

10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques
Advertisement More and more applications these days are migrating to the Web. Without platform constraints or installation requirements, the software-as-a-service model looks very attractive. Web application interface design is, at its core, Web design; however, its focus is mainly on function. To compete with desktop applications, Web apps must offer simple, intuitive and responsive user interfaces that let their users get things done with less effort and time. In the past we didn’t cover web applications the way we should and now it’s time to take a closer look at some useful techniques and design solutions that make web-applications more user-friendly and more beautiful. Please feel free to suggest further ideas, approaches and coding solutions in the comments to this post. and Twitter You may want to take a look at the following related articles: 1. Simplicity is important in user interface design. One way of making things simpler is to hide or conceal advanced functionality. 2. 3. 4.

Use Dojo Grid to Display Google Spreadsheets Google Spreadsheets is not only a basic spreadsheet product,but also a very powerful tool for web applications. By using the Spreadsheets Data API it can be easily performed as a web-based database to generate a web form, a online shopping cart, a Google Map mashup .... etc. Dojo DataGrid is a JavaScript library with spreadsheet view function , it supports datastores like Csv, Json, XML, Googlefeeds... etc. However, there is no Google Spreadsheets datastore for Dojo yet. The PHP Zend Gdata 1.10.0 library is used to talk to the Google Data API, it takes care the client login, file listing, spread sheet files and worksheet tokens retrieving and cells data feed. retrieve the spreadsheets file list and key tokens, once user decide which file to read, The first part of the PHP is for client login : <div style="color: blue;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>set_include_path(get_include_path() . To read the spreadsheets list : To read the worksheets list of select spreadsheet :

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Jon Combe | Code | HTML clocks using JavaScript and CSS rotation February 2010 Warning: This isn't going to work in any currently available version of Internet Explorer* or many older browsers. Background In July last year, the excellent Jonathan Snook wrote an article about CSS rotation. If you're interested stuff like this and you haven't heard of Mr. Snook before, I suggest you read his stuff. He explains in his article that the Webkit (Google Chrome & Safari) and Firefox 3.5+ browsers support the CSS transform property. He also notes that it is also possible to implement basic (0° / 90° / 180° / 270°) rotations using Internet Explorer, but clearly this wasn't going to cut it for what I wanted to do here. The code to make the clocks work is really very simple. transform: rotate(42deg); // this won't work yet, but one day it may -moz-transform: rotate(42deg); // mozilla specific -o-transform: rotate(42deg); // opera specific -webkit-transform: rotate(42deg); // webkit specific In jQuery that could look like: How it works A couple of things to note

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Powerful New CSS- and JavaScript-Techniques (2012 Edition) Advertisement Since our last round-up of useful CSS techniques1, we’ve seen a lot of truly remarkable CSS geekery out there. With CSS3, some of the older techniques now have become obsolete, others have established themselves as standards, and many techniques are still in the “crazy experimentation” stage. Since the release of the previous post, we’ve been collecting, sorting, filtering and preparing a compact overview of powerful new CSS techniques. Please note that many techniques are not only CSS-based, but also use HTML5 and JavaScript. Table of Contents CSS Transitions And Animations CSS transitions and animations are often used to make the user experience a bit more smooth and interesting, especially when it comes to interactive effects on hover or on click. Interactive CSS3 lighting effects7 An interesting effect to create interactive lighting effects with 3-D transforms, CSS gradients and masks; the cast shadow was created using box shadows and transforms. Visual Techniques with CSS

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Le BlogDuWebdesign boost l'inspiration des intégrateurs #4 - inspiration-integration Découvrez sur le Blog du Webdesign 10 animations CSS3 sans javascript ! Les animations et transitions CSS3 Qu'on se le dise, il n'est plus obligatoire d'utiliser du Javascript pour avoir de jolies animations sur son site ! Le CSS3 fournit deux outils vraiment très bien : les transitions et les animations. Les Transitions ne sont ni plus ni moins qu'un moyen de répartir le changement d'une propriété (par exemple un changement de couleur de texte au survol) dans le temps, pour donner un effet d'apparition, par exemple. Les animations sont bien plus que ça: Il est possible grace à elles de définir des images clés, et les transitions qui doivent être appliquées pour passer d'une image a l'autre ! Attention, ces deux propriétés ne sont pas supportés par internet explorer 9 et inférieur. Pour illustrer ce que l'on peut faire avec tout ça, découvrez 10 animations ne contenant pas de Javascript (ou alors n'utilisant le Javascript que pour des taches annexes, comme détecter un clic).

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50 Excellent CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials for Beautiful Design CSS3 has got a huge potential to create very elaborate and complicated details by strictly using CSS and no images. It can carry out a lot of functions as it is based on motion techniques. Many designers all over the world believe that CSS3 is a technique which has unbelievable potentiality which will be used to create wonderful designs in the years to come. At present, it is not being used varied all over the world due to a number of limitations – obsolete browsers being one of them. Many say that it would be the application of the future as it can improve the efficiency of the workflow by substituting waste workarounds as it was once used in the case of Internet Explorer 6. It has many features which are not compatible with the old web browsers and hence it will require some present day internet browsers like Internet Explorer 7 & 8, Chrome, Safari and Firefox to use the CSS3. Create an Audio Player in HTML5 & CSS3 Filter Functionality with CSS3 Create CSS3 Pricing Tables CSS3 Lightbox

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