UI Development FAQ’s

The Semantic Html is using markup that also conveys the containing content. HTML5 has more semantic tags than prior versions (nav | aside | article | header | footer), but using descriptive classes and id’s could also be an example of semantic markup.

If there is an issue with the page, then looking for the common debugging practices like W3c validator, Firebug, Chrome Dev Tools will help.

Call An External Style Sheet And An External Script Located In The Root Folder Called Style.css And Main.js With Html.

<script src="main.js"></script>

<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet"></link>

The New elements of Html5 are canvas,header, footer, audio,svg, aside, article, nav, section etc…

Quirks Mode is a default compatibility mode and it may be different from the browser to browser, and this may result in a lack of consistency in appearance from browser to browser.

Comments are used to explain and clarify the code or to prevent the code from being recognized by the browser. Comments will start with “*” and end with ” –>“.

The Mozilla, Stack Overflow, CSS-Tricks are the online resources to solve CSS issues.

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is the dominant markup language used for creating websites and anything that can be viewed in a web browser.

We can optimize a website's assests by File concatenation, file compression, CDN Hosting, offloading assets, re-organizing and refining code, etc.

HTML doesn’t require any compiler. The languages like C, C+, and Java want a compiler to change the code into a language that a machine can understand.

We can reduce page load time by Reducing image sizes, by removing unnecessary widgets, HTTP compression, put CSS at the top and script references at the bottom or in external files, reduce lookups, minimize redirects, caching, etc.

Setting the default language, using Unicode encoding, using the ‘lang’ attribute, being aware of standard font sizes and text direction, and language word length (may affect layout).

Properties attributes comprise absolute, fixed, inherit, static and relative.

DOCTYPE tells the browser which type of HTML is used on a webpage. The browsers use DOCTYPE to determine how to render a page. Failing to use DOCTYPE or using a wrong DOCTYPE may load your page in Quirks Mode.

The biggest issue is the poor browser support XHTML currently enjoys. Internet Explorer and a number of other user agents cannot parse XHTML as XML. Thus, it is not the extensible language it was promised to be.

UI developers should have skills in visual design, prototyping platforms, copywriting, site analytics, SEO and front-end frameworks. A good UI developer knows HTML, CSS etc.

Web accessibility provides website right to use for differently-able and disabled persons so that they can easily recognize, and interrelate with the web.

To verify whether or not a variable is set in PHP is by utilizing the command:!isset($var);

AJAX is a short form for JavaScript and XML and is a client-side procedure written in JavaScript. It is used to post data from a remote server without needing to refill the page.

Decrease image sizes, remove needless widgets, HTTP compression, put CSS at the top and script references at the bottom, reduce lookups, diminish redirects, caching, etc.