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Flexbox without flexbox 15 Nov 2011 | 08:29 am
Post tables. Post divs, floats and hacks. CSS3 Flexbox will probably be the next big thing in web page layout. While we wait for browser support to catch up it’s worth pointing out that some of the m...
PHP case sensitivity 22 Mar 2011 | 11:34 pm
I’ve always found the case sensitivity rules in PHP a little mysterious, and also a little hard to find definitive information on. So, for reference sake here they are. Tests based on PHP 5.3 running ...
CSS Crush 6 Oct 2010 | 07:58 am
Update: The CSS Crush project now has a homepage. Consider the overview in this post to be obsolete. I’ve been watching the different developments in CSS pre-processors for a while now; SASS, LESS, ...
DOM Storage Query Language 19 Mar 2010 | 01:33 am
Lately I’ve been experimenting a bit with HTML5 Web Storage (or DOM Storage) to see what it might be useful for. If you’re not already familiar with web storage, basically, it’s the HTML5 way to stor...
Png-6 – Png transparency support for legacy versions of Internet Explorer 8 Jan 2010 | 12:03 pm
Not satisfied with existing solutions for Png transparency support in Internet Explorer 6 and 5.5, I decided to have a crack at it myself. Png-6 is a standalone (Java)script that converts inline png-...
Enhancing Usability with Pseudo Protocols 23 Nov 2009 | 11:13 am
Often, when enhancing web pages with scripted behaviours, you find yourself creating anchor (link) tags as convenient event triggers. As these links usually have no meaningful href attribute, they pro...
Hello HTML5! 9 Nov 2009 | 05:11 am
Here I’d like to outline (for myself as much as anything) why I think the web should be using HTML5 right now. For the web standardista community XHTML has long been the benchmark for high quality fr...
DOM branching 28 Aug 2009 | 11:25 pm
As an interface, the DOM attracts a fair amount of critisism for its verbosity and some of the unintuitive mechanisms it provides. It’s also often derided for its omissions. I mean, why is there no i...
How To: Style a HTML file upload control using CSS and JavaScript 21 Aug 2009 | 04:00 am
If you’ve ever tried, you’ll know that styling an html file upload control is like flogging a dead horse. Due to the security issues of enabling any user to upload files directly to a server, html fi...
Display woes, and community generated solutions 10 Jul 2009 | 11:02 am
A bizarre (and uncharacteristic) bug on the usually brilliant Firefox caused a stir over at Zeldman.com yesterday. To start with, some kind of guillotining bug on long content – more characteristic o...
