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 [...]
Wunderlist is a free todo list application – or suite of applications – which launched recently for Mac OS, Windows, iPhone, iPad, and Android. They also provide a very nice web client client. The A-Number-1-killer feature is free cloud syncing between all versions. This means you can install Wunderlist on your Mac at [...]
Shawn Blanc reviews a number of cloud backup services and gives his rundown. He ultimately chooses Backblaze for pretty much the same reasons I did. He also does a quick breakdown of his broadband internet speeds and how bumping up his service helped the cloud backup strategy be usable. If you’re on crappy DSL (because [...]
Update! I have a much more elegant solution to this problem. The Problem Internet Explorer 9 beta supports CSS3 rounded corners with the border-radius property. Internet Explorer 9 beta does not support CSS3 gradients but continues to support the legacy, proprietary, gradient filter for creating gradient backgrounds on html elements. Unfortunately, the two do not [...]
I use the default WordPress Links widget at the bottom of my theme (everything to the right of ‘recently’) to display links to other blogs, pictures, other sites, and what not. I believe the kids are calling that a ‘blogroll’. The problem is, the default links widget orders by name alphabetically. I want links to [...]
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