Category: Programming

HTML5 – A great progression in markup

Hardly a buzz-word, more the “hail-mary” of markup language progression, HTML5 brings very important tags and standards to the web. First and foremost, HTML5 solves the question from that last couple of years of what DOCTYPE to use with XHTML. <!DOCTYPE html> John Resig (creator of jQuery) has the best write-up on HTML5 link to… Continue reading HTML5 – A great progression in markup

Most amazing javascript web app I’ve ever seen

280 Slides is the most impressive javascript-based web app I’ve ever seen. It’s a presentation system that basically blows any online presentation creation system I’ve ever seen. It uses a framework “Cappuccino” and programming language written in javascript “Objective-J”. I was testing this on Safari 3.

SEO – tags of choice

SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) can be improved on a site by using a variety of different tags, not just div and span. The header tag hierarchy is a prime example of SEO and tag choice. An <h1> tag is seen as more important than an <h2> tag. A <strong> tag will bring greater… Continue reading SEO – tags of choice

Safari 3 Bug – CSS Style sheet

Safari 3 had an issue with computing this following style statement that was placed at the top of a CSS file, which in turn was imported into another CSS document and that document was called in by an HTML document. So basically; index.html: –> css.css: @import url(/css/index.css); –> index.css had the offending code: @charset “UTF-8”;… Continue reading Safari 3 Bug – CSS Style sheet

Coda, Panic’s programming program

After a lot of back and forth, with new coding apps I’ve started and stuck with Coda. It’s not perfect by any means, but it is solid, easy to use, simple and the people at Panic are helpful. I guess I’m just not an Emacs with GIT kinda guy… 😉

Firefox Float Drop Bug

Ran into this issues today with Firefox 2.0.0.20 (something like that). Set the width of the floating div and that fixed the issue for me.

jQuery, if you don’t know, you’d better ask somebody

A long confusing battle of javascript libraries, I think it’s safe to say jQuery is going to be the js library of choice… it’s definitely mine. (Saying this after just completing two small projects using Mootools to appease the Safari 2.0 users) http://jquery.com/

Rails and Oracle

Worth checking-out: http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/haefel-oracle-ruby.html Article/tutorial works better on Windows machine. What else is VMware for? 😉

IE CSS td:hover Hack

Firefox, Safari allow CSS td:hover state, Internet Explorer doesn’t. There has been an .htc hack made to work-around this issue. Available here: http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/50660