Congress is about to pass internet censorship, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill – PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity.
Use @font-face in your CSS Computers have been capable of displaying multiple fonts for several decades now, so it might seem odd that fonts are only just now becoming standardised on the web. However, disagreement on file formats along with complex font licensing issues have turned this into quite a difficult challenge to overcome. Fortunately, [...]
Most of the websites I see, still host their JavaScript Library on their own server (Most, not all). Actually never have I ever seen any Web Development Blog hosting the library on their own server. They always use Google CDN, which is great because it has a number of advantages.
This year could be of critical importance to the open source software industry, with a recent survey showing a majority of businesses and organizations in the U.S. and United Kingdom expecting to increase investment in it this year.
Most web applications today use a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to take the load off the web server.
You are likely aware of the page-centering technique of adding auto left and right margins to an outer div: 1 2 3 #some_div { margin: 0 auto; } One of the issues of this is that when used on websites with multiple pages, the layout can appear to “jump” a little bit when going back [...]
A thorn in the side of many web developers is Internet Explorer 6. It’s an old browser that has many annoyances that cause those creating websites to have to add additional code just to have things render as they should. Google, being a company that develops a web browser, has taken it upon themselves to [...]
37Signals is dropping all support for ie6! This will be a good move, as most company’s are still stuck on supporting ie6 costing millions in time and effort. On August 15th, 2008 October 1, 2008 we will begin phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 across all 37signals products. In order to continue using the [...]
So the last few years have brought amazing things, with the standards movement and getting companies to pay attention to the importance of following standards. In that time, I have seen over five big changes in PHP, three great changes in rails and only one in CSS. Why are we not seeing css3? Why does [...]
This is something I picked up in making my own functions and trying not to effect my other js libraries. I first start by creating a base function like so: function Wrapper() { } Then inside that function I create my “methods” if you will… function Wrapper() { this.MyMethod = function(var) { return var; [...]
No More drunk emails! When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind? Google [...]
Why not? Some developers call public beta “Bullshit”, they say that you are afraid to release a full version and put the blame out of your hands. They go on to also say that this is a “if it does not work don’t blame us” type of attitude. I feel public beta for a public [...]
Something we as a designer or developer will come across many times, educate your client but don’t insult them! Now I am lucky I have a teacher for a wife so I have seen a few things that she does when talking to students or parents. First we must understand our client, most don’t know [...]
The address tag defines the start of an address. You should use it to define addresses, signatures, or authorships of documents. The address usually renders in italic. Most browsers will add a line break before and after the address element, but line breaks inside the text you have to insert yourself. This is a great [...]
What is “cite”? Cite indicates a reference to work, such as a book, report or web site. This is something I don’t see a whole lot of, the tag is very underused! Think about it, we talk about other peoples work websites, reports and more all the time! I can’t say I have used it [...]
