Archive for January, 2009
Add-on for an add-on: FireScope
Posted by John in CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Programming on January 28th, 2009
What's the world coming to when we've got add-ons for add-ons in Firefox? This extension comes shortly after the announcement that Sitepoint have put up their JavaScript Reference. The new extension pulls in information from their reference, at the moment it only works for the HTML and CSS reference, but once the JavaScript reference is more complete ...
jQuery 1.3.1 Released
Posted by John in JavaScript, Programming on January 22nd, 2009
Only a very short time after the initial 1.3.0 release of jQuery - we're seeing 1.3.1 released to fix a few bugs present in the previous version. With the 1.3.x releases, the jQuery developers have also decided to stop providing a "packed" version of the script, the reasons cited being performance and compatibility reasons. The minified ...
CSS Selector Shell Shows You Stuff
Posted by John in CSS, Programming on January 22nd, 2009
The CSS Selector Shell gives you a nice way to find out how the browser that you're using interpets the CSS given. The shell is a browser-based tool for testing what CSS becomes in different browsers. This could seriously be a big help for debugging problems between browsers, especially when looking at inherited styles. (Found ...
Don’t Click Here – Placing Links in Context
If you’re interested in reading this article, click here. On second thought. Don’t. It’s a common usability problem. Links that don’t mean anything. How are you using links on your website? Don’t Click Here - Placing Links in Context | Build Internet. A short article to let us know it's ok to not tell people to "click here". ...
TG Daily – Google tells users to drop IE6
Chicago (IL) - Taking a page out of Apple’s book, Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome that, according to the company, run the popular web-based email service "twice as fast." Google also labels IE6 as an unsupported browser, meaning it fails to run ...
From the Department of Badly Chosen Defaults
Posted by John in CSS, Programming on January 7th, 2009
Note that all the other browsers use bicubic interpolation for scaling by default, because that’s the only thing that make sense, but IE requires a non-standard CSS extension. So, pictures on this site should be a little smoother for those of you determined to use Internet Explorer. From the Department of Badly Chosen Defaults - Joel ...
IE’s Decline Makes ‘Cross Browser’ More Relevant
Though IE still has a commanding lead in the browser market, 2009 should see continued growth for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (though Chrome could slow down the growth of other alternative browsers once it has extensions). Internet Explorer, meanwhile, is expected to continue its decline. As browser parity nears (at least in terms of user ...
24-bit PNG support AND rounded corners.
Posted by John in JavaScript, Programming on January 6th, 2009
24-bit PNG Support For all of us that have to deal with the massive pain that is Internet Explorer 6 - there is now finally a way to get 24-bit Alpha-Transparent PNGs to work in IE6. And all it takes is a few lines of code, ideally you'd insert these in between some conditional comments. ...
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