Yearly Archives: 2009

Not-So-Subtle Tactics to Obliterate IE6

A great new redirect page for all your IE6-users. Maybe this will help get the message across… :-) Happy assailing, and thanks for the referral, Alex, Atg Top⇪

Proof of just how dangerous a little early-morning coffee can be…

So, a seemingly-harmless line in the Google blog (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/) sent me merrily tangenting this morning… In the post titled “Design patterns for accessible, crawlable and indexable content” (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/05/design-patterns-for-accessible.html), under the section header titled “CSS sprites and navigation links”, I read … Continue reading

Simply JavaScript – Sitepoint Book Review

[Editor’s note: It is truly amazing how quickly a post can become dated… I am now quite comfortable with OOP-JS and I am now deeply entrenched in jQuery and find it very useful, but my points below about buying a … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

A handy HTML 5 Cheatsheet (PDF)… So why not add in a CSS3 Cheatsheet (PDF)? Coming soon from Mac? 24 JavaScript Best Practices for Beginners (not just for beginners…) Read them all!! 20 Tools to Make the Life of a … Continue reading

Check Your Website Performance

High Performance.  What does that really mean in the web world? Well, if you’re a developer, you might be thinking about how efficient your scripts and functions run, whether they do or don’t bleed any resources, whether they properly dump … Continue reading

Ever Wonder How High the z-index CSS Property Goes?

Here is the answer… http://www.puidokas.com/max-z-index/ Thanks to Stephen Tang for passing along! Happy z-indexing, Atg Top⇪

View Source from Firefox Directly into your HTML Editor

How many times have you had to take a webpage you are viewing, make a flat file and tinker with it in your favorite HTML Editor (I use Dreamweaver, so I’ll use it in this post)? To do this, you … Continue reading

HTML5 Form Elements: I cannot WAIT!

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/html-5-snapshot-2009 HTML 5 is ready to go! Well, sort of… Mostly, in some places, and some times with just a little help… But great reading, especially the part about <form> s (page 3, Opera-only for now), be sure to view … Continue reading

Tips and Toys for Gmail

Gmail Notifier will tell you you get a new email, and it comes in two flavors! There are also a TON of cool Gmail toys to choose from and play with! My personal faves (which I am still checking out) … Continue reading

Notes from Jesse James Garrett Talk

Had the pleasure of attending a very intimate presentation and discussion with Jesse James Garret and Tamara Wayland of span class=”vcard”>Adaptive Path, so I thought I’d share a few notes I took… I like that part of AP’s mission statement … Continue reading