View Source on iPhone
This is a cool little tidbit for those of you web developers that have an iPhone. A Safari bookmarklet that enables you to “View Source” for any web page while using Safari on the iPhone. A bookmarklet (in case you didn’t know) is “a JavaScript program stored as a URL within a bookmark” as defined [...]
Facebook’s platform sucks
I’ve been hearing a lot about the new Facebook application platform lately, so I decided to finally check it out over Thanksgiving weekend. I thought it might be fun to port one of the schmedley schmidgets (widgets) into a Facebook “application”. Turns out, it was definitely not fun. In fact, it was a weekend filled [...]
JavaScript email cloaking
Here’s another quick one. Below is a simple JavaScript that you can use to cloak your email address when posting it on your website. It dynamically writes the email link into the page which will thwart most spambots (server-side creation of the email link will always be a little more secure). Here’s how we do [...]
IE CSS hacks
In my web developing adventures, I’ve come across one definite truth - Internet Explorer is a big pain in the ass. Version 7 has come a long way from version 6, but it is still a bit quirky. Seeing as how I write code in a text editor (Coda is my tool of choice), I [...]
Transparent PNGs in IE6
Everybody knows that IE versions 5.5 and 6 cannot render a PNG image with alpha transparency correctly. The result is a visible “box” around the image highlighting what is supposed to be the transparent part. In the past I had used the “IE7″ JavaScript that i had found on the web before IE7 was actually [...]
Hello world!
I decided it is finally time for me to start a blog. The main reason is, of course, shameless self-promotion. But then I realized that I could use this blog to do some good. For the past 12 years, most of what I’ve learned in coding was found on other websites. It was through other [...]
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