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Designing for Broadband OK

Tue, Aug 19, 2008 – 12:36 pm by Stan Slaughter

It looks like designing your website for broadband is OK now.

According to Leichtman Research broadband penetration in the US should break 90% by mid-2008. This is based on a survey conducted in February of 2008 showing that broadband was in 57% of …Click for the rest

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Floating Table Titles

Tue, Jul 29, 2008 – 4:15 pm by Stan Slaughter

Table Titles Float to stay in view
Tested to work in Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3.1

You will never loose sight of a tables column titles as long as the table is visible on the screen !

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Invisibly in the background this script will take your tables exsting titles and “fix” them so as you scroll down the page they will always remain in view.

To use the script just include the TableFloaterTitle.js file in the head of your document.


<script src=”TableFloaterTitle.js”></script>

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Fixed Table Head

Thu, Jul 3, 2008 – 5:12 am by Stan Slaughter

Scrollable Table Body with a Fixed Table Heading
Tested to work in Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7. Safari users may want to check out Floating Table Titles

There is no HTML or CSS standard tag or property that lets you freeze the title row of a table in place while allowing the body to scroll up and down.

Like this:

Title #1 Title #2…. Title #3……. #4
Item 1……….. Item 2 Item 3 Item 4
Itemb5 Item 6 Item 7 Item 8
Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4
Itemb5 Item 6 Item 7 Item 8
Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4
Itemb5 Item 6 Item 7 Item 8
Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4
Itemb5 Item 6 Item 7 Item 8
Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4
Itemb5 Item 6 Item 7 Item 8
Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4
Itemb5 Item 6 Item 7 Item 8
Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4
Itemb5 Item 6 Item 7 Item 8
Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4
Itemb5 Item 6 Item 7 Item 8

In response to this I created the “FixedTableHead” CSS class. …Click for the rest