Web stuff Category Archives
IE9 predictions
Published on 14 Mar 2010 at 9:22 pm.
Filed under Web stuff.
My predictions for Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft will officially make an announcement for it at Microsoft MIX 2010.
Border-radius support!
At least a portion of the SVG spec will be supported.
Native support for newly introduced HTML5 elements. They may not actually function, but no longer will one need JavaScript in order to style them.
Native Drag-and-drop
DOM2 events.
DOMContentLoaded support.
Box-shadow and [...]
Local Load
Published on 14 Feb 2010 at 9:20 pm.
Filed under Life, Politics, Web stuff.
Just wanted to post here that I have created a new Web site dedicated to my new Firefox extension Local Load.
Phase one of Local Load is to allow developers to speed up the loading of their Web sites and to save on bandwidth by loading a copy of the most popular JavaScript frameworks on the [...]
RIP XHTML 2.0 We never knew thee
Published on 3 Jul 2009 at 9:47 pm.
Filed under Web stuff.
Recently the W3C announced that it will no longer focus its time on the development of XHTML 2 in order focus its efforts on the widely heralded HTML 5 specification. This is something that I am very honestly surprised took this long to happen. XHTML started out as an XML serialization of HTML. XHTML2 barely [...]
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Hey that was my idea…
Published on 2 Jul 2009 at 10:22 pm.
Filed under Web stuff.
Google recently created a new site dedicated to making the Web faster. This site site contains a few articles and video tutorials that are a very helpful resource that gathers advice by experts in the field of Web development. It was the Life’s Too Short - Write Faster Code video that I found particularly interesting. [...]
The new state of video on the Web
Published on 2 Jul 2009 at 8:34 pm.
Filed under Web stuff.
The recent release of Mozilla Firefox 3.5 seems to have sparked a great deal of discussion about what codecs browsers should support with the newly added <video> element that was introduced in HTML5.
The believe behind the video element is that video has become so fundamental to the Web that it no longer makes sense to [...]
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What’s in a browser?
Published on 24 May 2009 at 10:58 pm.
Filed under Web stuff.
As the Internet becomes more and more engraved into our everyday lives, if you are going to do business over the Web, you should educate yourself on what goes into a browser and how those features can effect your overall business decisions. For the purpose of this article I shall cover the two features that [...]
self-blocking ads
Published on 30 Apr 2009 at 9:21 pm.
Filed under Life, Web stuff.
I know many people use Ad-block or some variant, but at work I feel that I should not be doing anything that blocks HTML content.
But lately I’ve noticed that there are blocks for ads on sites like OkCupid. Where the “ad” is:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
I wasn’t aware that robots.txt files were very good advertising tools. :-p
Google Announces the Launch of Google Chrome… Tomorrow
Published on 1 Sep 2008 at 7:45 pm.
Filed under Web stuff.
Today Google the launch of the open-source Google Web browser entitled Google Chrome. Oddly enough, this announcement was set a bit early as the browser will not be made available to the public until tomorrow.
One might wonder why Google would enter into the browser market. To paraphrase a famous Homer Simpson quote: Google, how could [...]
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Monumental week for the Web
Published on 26 Jan 2008 at 12:47 am.
Filed under Web stuff.
I cannot think of a week for the Web in all of the years that I have been a Web developer. Let’s go over the highlights.
Ten years of Mozilla — I know that this is relatively minor, but it is worth pointing out that it has been 10 years since the birth of Mozilla from [...]
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CSS letter spacing oddities
Published on 12 Nov 2007 at 8:43 pm.
Filed under Web stuff.
While trying to help my friend Jeff help work on his sister’s web site I explained to him that he had a text-align justify rule. For a lark I suggested if he wanted to keep that going he could always use letter-spacing/word-spacing. While looking for a URL to send to him I discovered that word/letter-spacing [...]