Posts tagged "jquery"

This post has been a long time coming.

Reminder message, dated 18 January 2010

It's unacceptable for any website or web application to output dates and times using an arbitrary time zone. Displaying dates and times in UTC/GMT is only slightly better: dates cannot be relied upon, and users must perform mental gymnastics in order to localize date–time combos.

This is my response to Chris Coyier's screencast titled jQuery Part 3 – Image Title Plugin which I watched a couple of days ago. Something didn't sit right with me at the time, and I've now worked out what it was: JavaScript is not required!

I'll present a JavaScript-free approach for displaying captions over images that uses truly meaningful markup.