Scold Internet Explorer users with conditional comments

Friday, January 4th, 2008

It’s a sad, sad fact that the various versions of Internet Explorer still command a 57% marketshare in the browser world. Yes, supporting that craptastic pile of kludged-together code, with its hundreds of security holes and complete disregard for web standards, is a complete nightmare that has added hours upon hours to the development of […]

When not to use Flash: A Critique

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

In the interest of full disclosure (oooh aren’t I a fancy-pants journalist), I should say that I’ve never been a big fan of Flash. This post isn’t intended to be a hitjob on Flash, just an honest critique of a site that would be better served with good old HTML/CSS instead of using Flash for […]

Coda: Painless, elegant web development for Mac

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Apple has got the aesthetics game down. Few other innovators can mix form and function like they do, and this rubs off on to third-party developers. Last week saw the release of new MacBooks from Apple…and Coda from Panic.

It’s like an elegant PSPad for Mac, with everything a web developer needs gracefully integrated into the […]

How to: Fix your WordPress ‘Digg This’ plugin

Friday, May 4th, 2007

I’ve spent quite a bit of time this week setting up this blog to run as I like it. It’s involved a lot of CSS tweaking with Firebug (which, by the way, is a godsend for web developers) and a lot of down-and-dirty PHP editing. After publishing my reaction to the Digg riots, I installed […]