WebPelican Articles

How to create a Digital Clock with JavaScript

martin — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:42:10 +0000

This is an example of a simple digital clock created with JavaScript. To make the code more clear I've put both the JavaScript code and the CSS code directly in the HTML document. This is what it can...

Chat Applet Communicating with a Servlet

martin — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:12:25 +0000

When coding a Chat application in Java that should be availible on the Web a good choice is to have an applet communicating with a servlet. Although sockets can be used, a better alternative is to use a high-level connection with HTTP.

CSS Pseudo-classes

martin — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:47:55 +0000

The CSS2 definition provides pseudo-classes which are used to add special effects to some selectors:

How to create a Binary to Decimal Converter with JavaScript

martin — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:39:02 +0000

This is an example of how a Binary to Decimal(and vice versa) Converter can be created with JavaScript. The script could. . .

How to create a Fahrenheit to Celsius converter with JavaScript

martin — Tue, 30 May 2006 19:04:11 +0000

This is an example of how to create a Fahrenheit to Celsius(and vice versa) Converter with JavaScript. It could just as well. . .

How to break out of frames with JavaScript - a Frame Breakout Script

martin — Fri, 19 May 2006 10:04:36 +0000

To prevent a Web page from loading in someone else's frame a simple JavaScript can be linked to - or inserted within - the <head> section of a Web page. This JavaScript make clients/browsers break out of the frame of the foreign website's Web page and land on your website's Web page instead.

CSS Cursor Property Values

martin — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:28:14 +0000

The cursor property specifies what type of cursor should be displayed for a pointing device such as a mouse pointer. . .

Browser Detection with Conditional Comments

martin — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:28:41 +0000

A very common operation when designing Web pages is to detect the browser type and browser version. This is called browser detection and is used to make sure that what is presented to the browser is compatible and handeld correctly. There are many different methods to detect what browser a user have. The majority of these methods use either client-side or server-side scripts. Conditional comments is a script-free client-side alternative to the more common scripted browser detection methods.

This Weblog

martin — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:11:12 +0000

This weblog is a subsection of WebPelican, which is a website where I put all my Web and Internet programming related work as a student at the Department of Computer and System Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden.

CSS Frames VS Standard HTML Frames

martin — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:25:02 +0000

Nowadays frames are not quite as widespread as they used to be, which is good, since frames have quite a few drawbacks. You have probably heard of these drawbacks before: