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Comments versus Conversation 27 Aug 2012 | 12:18 am
I have a huge amount of respect for Kyle Weems. Not only is he an excellent visual artist, creator of the beautiful CSSquirrel comic — which, incidentally, looks gorgeous on an iPad screen — he is als...
DOM programming techniques 5 Apr 2012 | 10:24 am
When I first started working with JavaScript, I had a vague understanding of this mystical ‘DOM’ thing, and I even experimented with a small part of the API, never really appreciating why messing abou...
Content Management Systems 4 Apr 2012 | 10:18 am
I’ve been using so-called ‘content management systems’, of one form or another, for over a decade now. From bespoke, purpose built applications to proprietary and open source products, I’ve seen quite...
Bookmarks: forgotten, but not gone. Yet. 3 Apr 2012 | 09:34 am
Every now and then, I like to take a step back from the infinite conveyor belt of progress, reminisce on something that feels like it came along with the ark, and have a good old think about whether i...
‘A’ is for ‘Accessibility’ 2 Apr 2012 | 06:58 am
Ever since its very beginning, the World Wide Web has been intrinsically linked with the concept of accessibility: the ethos that websites should be usable by all. As I see it, the web has enjoyed thr...
Ide(a)s of March 1 Apr 2012 | 07:27 am
For well over a year now, I’ve been suffering from a severe case of ‘blogger’s block’. I could blame it on my current employment leaving very little ‘spare’ time in which to do anything, or all manner...
Facebook meta tag 16 Jul 2010 | 05:25 am
Facebook thinks that is valid HTML. It’s not. Stupid facebook. Note: it is part of XHTML 2.0, which no-one will ever use.
The arrogant curveball 6 Jul 2010 | 02:57 am
Recently, I upgraded to the latest version of Opera, and soon realised why I hadn’t done so earlier: that browser’s lack of regard for usability. Here’s the default view I’m presented with in version ...
Margin after float 30 May 2010 | 12:38 pm
Take this following example, in which an element with a top margin, following two floated elements, ‘sticks’ right up against those elements: A cleared element Even though it’s clearing those floats...
Parsing tweets with PHP 15 Mar 2010 | 06:13 am
Just a quick post to announce my release of a PHP port of Remy Sharp’s ‘ify’ script, a very simple chunk of code to auto-link the following parts of a tweet: URLs (into direct links) hashtags (link ...
