This one is a bit trivial, I know, but the way Facebook’s Timeline handles (and butchers) images has annoyed me from the first time I saw it. Example: Facebook Timeline, before fix Notice how both images are cropped? On the … Continue reading
Category Archives: tip
Finding the Scroll Position in IE10
It’s been so long since I had to deal with IE that I had forgotten about this, but IE does not support window.scrollX/window.scrollY; you have to use something like: var top = typeof window.scrollY === “undefined” ? window.pageYOffset : window.scrollY; … Continue reading
WordPress Plug-in Update: Navigation Menu IDs & Classes
I know it has been a long time since my last update to this plug-in, but version 2.0 finally brings the Admin page I’ve been wanting to add, allowing developers to easily choose which native WP navigation menu item classes, … Continue reading
Responsive Test Environment: Test Multiple Screen-Sizes, in One Browser Window, with One Refresh
So I had a thought on the bus the other day: Wouldn’t it be cool if I could test my responsive websites in multiple screen-sizes, without having to rubber-band my browser width back-and-forth, and back-and–forth, and back-and–forth? If I could … Continue reading
The Netbiscuits Tactile Team Blog
Shortly after starting to work for Netbiscuits in March of 2012, I suggested to my team that we start documenting issues, solutions, tips, tricks, etc. that are mobile-related, which inevitably resulted in a WordPress blog: http://tactileteam.wordpress.com/ There will be some … Continue reading
How to Do the “Right Thing”
I just read an article from one of my faves, Jeremy Keith, titled How do I convince…?, and I chuckled to myself several times because it is also something I’ve heard many times, something to the effect of “But how … Continue reading
Windows 7 + (Chrome > 17) = WTF?
Update: This has been resolved, see my comment from 2012-Dec-06. And in this special case, WTF stands for: What’s with The Font-rendering… This has happened to me a couple times now, and each time I have filed a bug, waited, … Continue reading
Pure CSS Highlight for Link :target
Recently I was working on a FAQ page. Typically, it had a series of Questions at the top, and each linked to an Answer below (I actually prefer questions and answers to be more Q>A, Q>A, but this was an … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Seems we have (at least) two new competing image replacement techniques: http://nicolasgallagher.com/another-css-image-replacement-technique/ http://www.zeldman.com/2012/03/01/replacing-the-9999px-hack-new-image-replacement/ Both are improvements over the old-standard text-indent: -9999px;, especially if you’re dealing with tablets, but does anyone have any other pros/cons on the two? And speaking of … Continue reading
WordPress Plugin: Add URL Slugs to <body> Class
Funny, I had built this some time back for my own personal use, thought it could be useful to others, planned on pushing it to the WordPress Repository, then apparently never got around to it… Anyhow, another quick and simple … Continue reading