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Closed 10 years ago.
I've seen widget used like a rather technical term, and the W3C has specifications for it. But Wikipedia says that a widget is just a piece of code that can be re-used in different ways. SE's definition for the widget tag doesn't fit either of those descriptions. What's a widget then?
I guess it depends on the context. On Android, a widget is an application that can be interacted with from the home screen. At my job, you can add widgets to your personalized intranet home page. But there's also the software application aspect, usually said to give a measure of the size of the application. So it has multiple meanings: a generally small GUI element devoted to a single purpose/application, or a small application as a whole.
Haha, and if you mouse-over the "widget" tag, it says something similar. Perhaps someone should expand the tag description.
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I'm creating a custom search using the fantastic jQuery plugin Filtrify.
The client has added a great deal more content than we initially expected, and now there are over well 5 000 HTML elements on the page.
My question: is there a recommendation for the maximum number of HTML elements on a page?
The page is still rendering - and the jQuery filtering still works well - but I'm worried about it tapping out at some stage in the future if they add even more data.
Any problems would be purely performance related. Many factors would go into finding a maximum number of elements without sacrificing performance. Multiple pages (http://luis-almeida.github.io/filtrify/jpages.html) will help the browser from using too much memory.
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I know I can go directly to the HTML specifications to look up all of the attributes one can have on a tag (custom ones excluded obviously as per html 5). Its easiest(?) with the HTML 4.0 Spec to do this, but its messy to dig through. The same is true for the HTML 5 spec. What I want is a akin to "cheat sheet" that displays all HTML elements and their possible attributes on a single page.
Are there any other resources that show all of the attributes one can have on a given tag but on a single page without having to drill down or be bombarded with a lot of text and examples?
EDIT
I cleaned up my question to be more direct in what I am looking for
No!
A list of all html elements and their attributes won't possibly fit on a page, even 2--at least not on a human readable page!
[Edited: More cheats! ...]
http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/images/html5-cheat-sheet/html5-cheat-sheet.pdf
This is what you want...4 pages.
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Closed 10 years ago.
Hey guys we want to create a informational type site for a very precise domain of knowledge, we want it to be in wiki like form. Whereby I mean the informational for each entity of knowledge is created by the users, and it works like wikipedia in that sense. Are there are web libraries we can use for a out of the box solution. WE don't want to spend much time programming this.
Thanks alot :)
Wikipedia is based on the open source Mediawiki system.
It's easy to use and install, but not very friendly for complex administration (especially regarding rights). And the editor is fine for engineers, not for everybody.
For other solutions, I suggest you google for "wiki" : that's the generic term describing this kind of system. Or "CMS" for something a little wider.
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I am working in rails, and a looking for some resources to design visually pleasing HTML forms. I can write the CSS, so even examples would be great.
Any recommendations?
There are many resources out there, you can just google for well looking forms or something like this.
There are also javascript libraries which makes customized selects/checkboxes etc -for example a project called uniform - check it out, you might like it. It provides you tools to customize it.
You can try Gravity Forms for WordPress then you never need to hand code the html and it inserts unique id's and matching classes in the HTML. This means the sky is the limit when it comes to styling your form.
If you are not using WordPress, here is a nice tutorial for designing form layouts.
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I am currently building a Website that uses a blackletter font. I try to make it as authentic as possible, but I want to keep the code clean. So I got a few questions
Is it possible, to replace every semikolon (or any other letter, e.g. to autmoatically fill in the medieval sz-letter) with a dot (via css)?
Is it bad program style to use <br /> to correct the justification? If yes, how would you do it?
Does anyone know an opentype blackletter-font, that is using CSS3's hist-feature?
Is it possible, to replace every semikolon (or any other letter, e.g. to autmoatically fill in the medieval sz-letter) with a dot (via css)?
the answer to that is no. You'll need JavaScript or server-side programming to do it.
Alternatively, you could of course edit the font you're using and do the substitutions there - but that's really hard. The font's license must allow it; you need to have the right tools, and you need to beprepared to deal with the possible kerning issues that simply replacing one character with another will bring.