Ask the Sherpas

  1. Question About Front-end Validation

    Answered by Chris Casciano on 30 July 2013

    There was a time, in the not so distant past, when one of the first rules for coding HTML was to run your page through W3C’s Validation Service. Primitive editing tools and nascent browser…
  2. Question About Cross-Browser Audio and Video

    Answered by Aaron Gustafson on 9 July 2013

    Adding audio and video content to a web page is nowhere near as easy as we might like it to be. It’s not that the syntax is hard, but rather that the codec wars have made it rather…
  3. Question About Assessible, Complex Data Entry Forms

    Answered by Jared Smith on 25 June 2013

    Your situation has two distinct accessibility requirements: table cells should be associated to their respective row and/or column headers, and inputs need descriptive labels. We’ll address…
  4. Question About Using CSS Grid Systems

    Answered by Allison Wagner on 12 June 2013

    Let’s first establish that by “CSS Grid systems,” you mean CSS grid frameworks like Foundation, 960, and Bootstrap. Because I think many developers nowadays use grid systems…
  5. Question About Using jQuery to Solve Interaction Problems

    Answered by Chris Casciano on 23 April 2013

    There are two interlocking pieces at the core of this puzzle: Understanding algorithms, or the abstract steps, needed to solve the problem you’re encountering. Determining the best…