The excitement around podcasting is justified. Much like blogging, the internet is empowering individuals with a new medium of easy and accessible speech that can be shared with the world. What’s not to like? Well, it turns out quite a bit. Before you venture into your first podcast, make sure you [...]
In an incredibly short amount of time, Dave Hyatt has simultaneously improved Safari to pass the Web Standard’s Acid2 test and shown that web standards not only matter, but that support can be improved in short order. Very impressive and certainly fun to watch. I hope this puppy gets rolled out to all [...]
I went to the Mini Cooper site to see if they had a Hybrid vehicle and was met with the following site requirements.
So, if you’re going to the Mini Cooper site make sure you change your resolution to 1024 x 768, because it’s required. Once you do that, the pop-up Flash interface presents you [...]
I have effective spam filters on my email, but it doesn’t discourage spammers in any way. Just the same, the nofollow attribute will do nothing to stop comment spammers from wasting your time. Using nofollow is destructive to the legitimate value of those people who leave links in their comments and I won’t [...]
Safari 1.3 seems to be tripping up on my photo galleries, which are nothing more than images separated by break tags with some styling for spacing. Take a look at my Taipei at Night Gallery with Safari 1.3 to see what I mean. About halfway down the gallery you’ll see images that are [...]
The Web Standards Project has thrown down the gauntlet of the Acid 2 Test and Dave Hyatt is doing an impressively quick job of picking it up. The Acid 2 test was put together to see if your browser can render this standards-based smiley face. Currently, all modern browsers fail and they are [...]
Along with Mac OS 10.3.9 update comes an upgrade for Safari from 1.2 to 1.3. The fantastic news is that Safari 1.3 gets most of the improvements seen in Safari 2.0 that is shipping with Tiger, including rendering pages the same way. As a result, there is no need to worry about testing [...]
Anyone looking for the Subscribe to Comments Wordpress Plugin should do so over at Tempus Fugit instead of it’s original home (birthplace?) at Jennifer’s. Mark has taken the original plugin and made a long list of fantastic improvments. I just installed it in the midst of my Wordpress 1.5 upgrade and I’m thoroughly [...]
If this story about Internet Explorer 7 not supporting CSS standards properly turns out to be true, it will be an incredible disappointment. We now develop for web standards and then waste a ton of time twisting it to look right in Internet Explorer 6. Microsoft does not gain the love of developers [...]
My friend Jon over at Exhibit 5a just launched a new design for his sight and I do not have to employ any exaggeration when I say it is gorgeous. Go check out the Exhibit 5a redesign for a piece of bloggy goodness.
I was fortunate enough to be able to help Jon with some [...]
