This is a nice little article discusses my new favorite search engine, DuckDuckGo. DuckDuckGo’s best two features are: It has no features It respects your online privacy Well. It’s not true that it has no features. DuckDuckGo just focuses entirely on web search. It doesn’t litter the page with garbage-ey social features and doesn’t filter your [...]
Microsoft is promoting an HTML port of the popular iPhone game “Cut the rope” as a part of their marketing and promotion of Internet Explorer 10. It works well in Safari (and probably Chrome too). They include a ‘behind the scenes’ page where they discuss some of the technologies used. It’s fairly interesting but includes some [...]
I recently updated my update on working around Internet Explorer 9’s deficiencies with gradients and rounded corners. Based upon feedback from a friendly reader, I tweaked the HTC script to work when gradients are applied on hover or mouseover states – the sort of styling you might want to use on a big, friendly, rounded [...]
Mr. Stephen Fry helps out around the office by announcing to my colleagues which development environment is about to be updated.
Update to the update: I’ve made a slight modification to the HTC script to handle mouse-over / hover events better. By “better” I mean “it handles them now.” Thanks to the reader who suggested it. Some time ago I wrote up a hacky way to work around an annoying IE9 bug. The full write-up has [...]
Facebook is starting a Political Action Committee. (Facebook, and most major tech companies employ lobbyists – Facebook has been ramping up their presence in DC) Facebook is scaring Dave Winer – Dave Winer writes about ‘frictionless sharing’ – a feature of where sites who partner with Facebook can automatically post to your news feed (and [...]
I found this little trick today for tricking legacy IE into using RGBA colors – that is a color defined with transparency. It seems to work fairly well, with some caveats, specifically potential font weirdness. http://kilianvalkhof.com/2010/css-xhtml/how-to-use-rgba-in-ie/
I’ve been doing a little work at home with jQuery and jQuery Mobile recently; at the jobby job we use ExtJS widgets and components. Comparing the two has me thinking. Each of these javascript libraries represents a different philosophical approach to developing web applications. jQuery Mobile is an extension of the jQuery library, and similarly [...]
Oh, Twitter. The other day Twitter went ‘bonk’ – which hey, stuff happens – but because the site has no non-javascript fallback it went boom. Be careful out there, kids.
I’ve been doing some client side development at the jobbity job. I had to re-discover the zen art of making shit work in Internet Explorer. I pulled an old trick out of my hat that I thought would be worth sharing. Internet Exploer 7, and 8 do not support the nth-child pseudo element selector, but [...]
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