Goodbye Internet Explorer
But what will people use to download Chrome?
webdev
Turning my sites up to Eleven-ty
This site is now powered by a static site generator called 11ty. It’s awesome! I’ll try to explain some of my favourite things about it and reasons you might prefer it to stalwarts in the SSG arena.
Wait! What happened to RSS?!
While I was busy aging like soft cheese, someone killed-off* RSS.
It used to be everywhere, now it’s gone; hidden or dead. How do you kids stay up to date with the websites you like? Do you know what RSS does? How are websites supposed to advertise update-subscriptions?
CSS layouts are so much better than they used to be
I’ve been doing this web thing a while, and in finally dropping IE11 support for my last few projects, I’ve been able to use raw CSS —not somebody else’s framework— and it’s been lovely to see how far CSS has come.
It’s time we buried Internet Explorer 8
Every web developer loves to wail on Internet Explorer but we need to act now if we want to stop the history of IE6 repeating itself with IE8. The longer we don’t, the longer we agree to limit ourselves to not using new and exciting features that make the internet better and our lives easier.
Why I love Disqus
Once upon a time if I wanted comments on a website, I would do them myself, tediously tackling problems solved a dozen times before to deliver an intuitive system. But today is a new day and I wouldn’t dream of writing comment code unless I really had to.
Adobe: Do as we say, not as we do
Adobe launched its Open Source initiative website the other day and I took at a look at the page. After highlighting some of the text as I read through it, I quickly realised I had stumbled through a warp-hole and landed in 1995. Warning: bad coding practices in this post!
Why Firefox 3 rocks
A media heavy post to start the year! I’ve been using Firefox 3 beta 2 for some time now and here are my favourite features. FF3 already rocks my socks and I’ve a feeling that the final release is going to blow them off.
Browser-wars 2.0? Conflict breeds innovation
Several pronounced webdev figures are stepping forward to say they’re bored of the stale state of standards. We need more fun and faster innovation and the best thing for that is all-out war, no?
AutoPacker - Optimise your JavaScript
Do you juggle several JavaScript files around your site? Too much effort to compress them down? Now you can compress them down as soon as you edit a file without having to run the files through an external tool, all done transparently and on the fly.
How to block Adblock
With the way publishers go on about them, you’d be forgiven for thinking ad-blockers were going to destroy the universe. In a desperate effort to stem the whinging, I’ve written some code to help them be as obnoxious as they like on their own sites.
What I’ve written is technically DRM 2.0. Please don’t hate me.
Will semantic development kill link ads?
How effective will link advertisements be if/when the web becomes even more semantic? Is there a future for the schemes that fund many bloggers’ habits.
Has Apple tripped up with Safari?
Apple has recently launched their flagship browser to Windows. Any good? Any point? Despite animosity for most things Apple, I’m excited to get my hands on the Apple browser… But for how long?
Stop the server abuse!
Have a look at the silly things IconBuffet are doing.
CSS Table of Contents
Why Use Standards?
Pros and Cons of OpenID
Flash isn’t flashy
Gripe 802: Background Images
Browsers are not the future
The 5 Rules of WebDev
Truth be told, there are no rules to what you have to abide by when designing a new website. You can do pretty much what you like, but then again, you might not have much repeat traffic. Here are some tips for those starting out.