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3DS browser revisited 14 Jun 2011 | 12:19 pm
It’s been a few months since I made the post speculating about the 3DS’ browser capabilities. Since the browser is now available and that post is easily the post that has drawn the most attention to m...
Webkit doesn’t fire the load event on images 1 May 2011 | 05:47 am
Well that’s not strictly true. The full headline reads something like this: Webkit doesn’t fire the load event on images when you change the src attribute and the new src is the same as the old That...
CSS3 gradients, multiple backgrounds and IE7 27 Feb 2011 | 05:58 am
You know how, according to the W3C, CSS selectors that are not understood should be ignored, without error? IE7 doesn’t do that 100% of the time. How dare it That’s right. Just when you thought you ...
The Web in 3D – the Nintendo 3DS web browser 14 Feb 2011 | 01:45 pm
The Web in 3D – the Nintendo 3DS web browser Last Sunday my wife and I went and had a sneaky preview of the new games console from Nintendo: the 3DS. Let’s not beat around the bush: this is a very i...
Always use www in your URLs 17 Jan 2011 | 07:13 am
…unless you are specifically on another subdomain. I’m not kidding! You need to make sure that your sites all redirect from http://yoursite.org to http://www.yoursite.org. If you’re not sure whether ...
Regex for an email address 14 Oct 2010 | 01:21 am
It’s something that I’ve come up against several times and each time I google for it I turn up a different result. How do you validate an email address? Obviously you want to use a regular expressio...
Why do we need conferences? 21 Mar 2010 | 10:58 am
Photo by Rugby Mad Girl, from Flickr Seriously? Why do we need to spend hundreds of pounds, dollars, euros or whatever to attend these events? They are pretty pricey and more often that not they are ...
A fold by any other name 25 Feb 2010 | 02:53 am
…would be a more accurate analogy. We’ve all heard the arguments about the so-called fold, that mysterious, imaginary line beneath which no content shall be seen. There are still plenty of clients, d...
A little something while you wait 2 Feb 2010 | 12:46 pm
I know, I know it’s been a while since I posted. There’s one on the way, I promise! While you wait for it to brew, however, why don’t you check out my inaugural post on the BBC Web Developer blog: CS...
Console.log for all! 13 Dec 2009 | 08:47 am
If you’re like me then you probably use console.log a lot. It’s such a useful debugging tool! It’s better that alert in so many ways I won’t bother mentioning them all because- oh what the hell, this ...
