Are you afraid of shadows?
Have you ever wondered how iTunes manages all those cool effects with the iPhone App images? The neat text shadows and box shadows for images, the curved corners… I thought it was something they were using an image tool for, but the more I looked at the feeds, the more I noticed that the the [...]
Do you believe in magick?
In short, an awesome, easy way to automate the resizing of images, and the rest of the kitchen sink… The kicker is, it’s been around since the mid to late 90′s. Very long history indeed! Give them a look if you haven’t before, even if you don’t need it now, just knowing about it could mean the difference between PhotoShop hell (to the tune of 15,000 images) and complete image automation.
Open Directory Project and Google Search Description Snippets
One source Google uses to generate description snippets is the Open Directory Project. You can direct Google not to use this as a source by adding the NOODP meta tag to your pages.
You should upgrade to IE7
This text was found when browsing using IE6 – I loved it and wanted to share it with you! Found on Click Forensics Your are currently browsing this site with Internet Explorer 6. When it was released in August of 2001 Internet Explorer 6 was a cutting edge browser, unfortunately after nearly 8 years the [...]
Debugging with Firebug
Cool article to print out and keep handy on debugging using Firebug. Sadly, I’ve still been using Alert. Call me dinosaur, but it’s worked for me — but I’m trying to change that! An in depth look at the future of JavaScript debugging with Firebug Firebug Tutorial This code snippet will help out with browsers [...]
Cross Browser DOM Ready
This is an interesting post about cross browser DOM Ready… Reinventing the wheel, cross browser DOM ready There are different techniques to have DOM ready functionality. Some techniques are faster,smarter than the other (or a combination of both). Having it working in various of browser has always been an issue, with HTML 5 they introduced [...]
Hiding and showing scroll bars with JavaScript
Have you received a requirement that says “We want to see this many elements before you add a scroll bar, we don’t care about the height of the elements, just the number”? If you are using YUI, there is a VERY easy way to handle this! YUI has the following 2 CSS classes which you [...]
SpryTooltip Placement in Safari
I have had an outstanding bug in my queue for the placement of the SpryTooltip in the Safari browser. It is something that I didn’t have a whole lot of time to invest in, but am finally getting back around to. The fix, so simple it’s astounding, but tracing back to find it was a [...]
IE6 – ul Background Color & Border Missing – Fixed!
So the bug I was working on today had to do with the error messages. In Firefox 2 & 3, and IE7, they show up great! Nice yellow background, red text, red border. Nothing fancy, but it definitely sticks out. IE6 gives me the fancy red text, but no background and no border. So off [...]
Why Automatic Versioning of CSS, JavaScript and Images is a good thing
In an article by Ed Eliot, he talks about why Automatic versioning of CSS, JavaScript and Images is a good thing. When including CSS and JavaScript resources in your pages you should version file paths and update these version numbers every time the files change. This is necessary as a visitor’s browsers may, depending on [...]
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