Eric Meyer has written an informed piece about how styling forms with CSS is the bane of our existence. Okay, well maybe that’s a bit extreme, but we’ve still got a long way to go until we can fully control the appearance of our web forms (without the use of javascript, that is).
While on the [...]
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Okay, I get it. Macs are awesome. After reading Ryan Carson’s Our Office 2.0 Experiment over on Vitamin, and the long list of comments from other Mac users, I decided to play the John Hodgman role and spin it Windows style (although a lot of my suggestions are open source and also available on OSX).
Note: [...]
Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup
Published October 26th, 2006 in Uncategorized, 0 CommentsBulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup - Many people think that simply knowing your HTML tags is enough to call yourself a web designer, however I don’t think you can truly call yourself a web developer unless you at least fully understand these fundamental principles.
Although right now you couldn’t tell by doing an update check, Firefox 2.0 is ready and waiting for download, Secret Squirrel style.
At the moment, I’m playing the “OMG! My extensions don’t work any more” game, but its not too bad. All my vital ones are working (Super DragAndGo, ColorZilla, FireBug, Greasemonkey, MeasureIt and Web Developer [...]
There are just a couple more things on my mind after writing about the events of Web Directions 2006.
During the afternoon on Friday there were some more prize draws (door-prizes and the such) during which I was the lucky winner of a free ticket to next year’s SXSW 2007 in Austin, Texas. This is the [...]
Okay. I know. I’m a slacker. It’s now nearly a full month since WD06, and I still haven’t finished my write-up. Better late than never.
The morning started with a breakfast with none-other than Ms Molly Holzschlag which was an open discussion about the new professionalism that we as web developers strive for in an ever-changing [...]
Well, it was Day 3 for me anyway, having attended the first two days of workshops.
With the workshops over, the real fun can begin. Well actually, the fun has been and gone, but I’ve been too busy socialising, followed by two days straight of driving, so I’ve had plenty of time to gather my thoughts, [...]
You know sometimes when you find it hard to make a decision between two workshops or seminars that are running at the same time? Well that happened with me for today, Day 2.
With hindsight, I probably should have chosen Derek Featherstone’s Accessibility 2.0 workshop over Kelly Goto’s The Iterative App. Now, this is nothing what-so-ever [...]
Well, Day 1 has been and gone. Well technically it’s more like Day -2, as there are two days of workshops before the conference proper.
For me, it was DOM Scripting with Jeremy Keith, and while I own his book, and have built a number of Ajax apps in the past, it was nice to learn [...]
Speaking of my Web Connections profile page, I’ve used a (slightly smug-looking) photo of me modelling my new glasses. Well, technically they aren’t my glasses. While I’ve had the eye test, and chosen the frames, the glasses themselves have not yet arrived. If you look carefully, you can actually see the brand lable stuck on [...]
