An interesting idea is presented on “for a beautiful web” regarding how best to deal with IE6 and its many failings. Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS proposes that IE6 always gets sent a standard look and feel, so that the experience for its users is not bad – just not the full shebang. It’s clear [...]
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We might as well start this series off at the bottom and work our way up. So, let’s start with PHP – it’s not the base of our stack, but it’s the first element that heavily requires some coding standards in place. As I said in the intro, this series will be about how I do [...]
I’ve decided to write an occasional series of articles on coding and development standards. It will be how I see them – the standards I myself follow – so it might not be for everyone. What it will be is a guide to what to expect if I’m working for you, and what to expect [...]
I’m in the middle of the first phase of building a new webapp and like most web developers (I would bet) when I show someone what I’ve done, it’s not apparent what marvels of engineering I’ve pulled off! So, in order to actually give a quick run-down of where we’re at with the application, I [...]
As the first example of my Tienda.co.uk project, we’ve just launched slant1996.com which sells slightly mad t-shirt designs!
This is probably an oldie-but-goodie to a lot of web devs, but as search indexing bots don’t always send HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE to the server with the request, it will cause an error if you depend on its presence, which can and will be reflected in the search results, even though not in “any” browser.
Fairly surprisingly (no, really bloody amazingly) the IE team has decided to make IE8 “interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can“. This is a welcome change (although we’re still having to make things work for IE6, of course!) What’s interesting about it is the willingness to put themselves on the side of [...]
I’ve been doing a lot more HTML/CSS recently than backend stuff, which suits me actually. Anyway, this is for Socialtext Open, the Wiki platform for which I’ve been doing a fair bit of work recently. It’s quite an extensive and varied app, so dealing with the CSS is quite an interesting challenge. The HTML is [...]
As a huge sigh of relief escapes most web front end developers around the world following Microsoft’s news of their dropping of IE for Mac, I’m quite looking forward to the fact that we’ll be able to test XHTML/CSS on Mac browsers that are more or less sane. It’s fairly amusing seeing MS recommend Safari [...]
I have to say, as a long-time non-fan of Javascript, the idea of depending on it to make things nicer didn’t really appeal. I think my subconcious was successfully preventing me from following those tempting links on Webreference, Sitepoint and of course Adaptive Path, promising me the ability to take my web apps to the [...]
Wow! We just got back from a tricky problem with the server… Gentoo (of which I’m still somewhat of a fan) decided to do some, er, interesting changes to config in the last emerge. Thanks to Pete at Bytemark for some great help to get back online.
“Oh dear.” That’s how the BBC News website put it, when trying to be polite about Madrid’s Olympic website. I feel kind of bad for them, even though I’ve not exactly been forgiving myself, when commenting on the state of Web Española. Unfortunately, there’s no arguing with the BBC’s point of view (”Right from the start, the [...]
I’ve been threatening to upgrade this blog to Wordpress 1.5 for a while, to bring it up to date with domipix and Brown Bear. Now I have, but the style is just a plain version of the theme from domipix.com. It’ll be changin’…
I’ve updated www.domipix.com to Wordpress 1.5 and so far, so good. Nice piece of work. (www.domipix.com is very new and still developing, so no dissin’…) [Update: blog.domipix.com has now moved to www.domipix.com.]