The Talent Pool launch

The Talent Pool offer a unique talent management and employee retention programme for UK business. Optimalworks has recently completed their website: it is one of the most innovative and feature-rich sites we have had the pleasure to work on.

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JavaScript session variables without cookies

A really clever method of storing large amounts of session data on the client without needing cookies.

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BetterInnerHTML v1.15 update – an innerHTML alternative

A new version of BetterInnerHTML has been released. BetterInnerHTML is a better alternative to innerHTML: a DOM method that’s easy to use and fast, but comes with a few problems.

Like innerHTML, BetterInnerHTML accepts a string of HTML but it uses standard DOM node insertion methods to generate the code. It’s safer and will even validate your HTML to ensure it’s well formed.

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IE8 standards uproar and some clever Microsoft marketing

Microsoft recently announced a horrible idea for standards-mode switching in IE8, only to backtrack and become heroes throughout the web development community! Everyone’s celebrating and I’m happy … but why do I have this niggling doubt of dirty political paranoia?!…

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Optimalworks wins the Accessites.org award

The Optimalworks.net website is honoured to receive the Accessites.org Quality Universal Design award.

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innerHTML: the ultimate alternative solution

Using innerHTML for DOM manipulation does not come without problems. This article proposes a completely new solution that is simple, has the advantages of innerHTML, but uses safe W3C DOM methods. All in 50 lines of JavaScript too!

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