Archives for: "August 2006"
A Guide to Semantic Markup
Aug 23rd
A very useful blog post, explaining semantic markup from a technical point of view. From a non-technical viewpoint it doesn't dwell overly on the key advantage - but if you don't read or understand (or care about) the rest of the article you should read… more »
Privacy flaw in IE and Firefox
Aug 23rd
If you're worried about websites knowing where else you've gone, then you need to make yourself aware of this. The technique is to put a bunch of links on your web page and then use a script to see if they trigger the specific style you've inserted for :… more »
5 HTML elements you probably never use (but perhaps should)
Aug 16th
A very useful blog post, I'd never heard of the address tag or the q tag before. more »
Browser Re-size Bookmarklets
Aug 14th
Was doing some layout stuff today and needed to check a page in IE at 800x600. I know there's a developer toolbar add in for IE but I generally try to avoid installing too much extra cruft in that browser, so I created some bookmarklets to resize for me… more »
Can Your Programming Language Do This?
Aug 1st
Joel is usually quite entertaining and today he posted on a subject I've been devoting some research time to recently, Functional Programming:
If your programming language requires you to use functors, you're not getting all the benefits of a modern p… more »