March 17 2008
IE6, IE7, IE8, web standards
There’s been a lot of discussion over Internet Explorer 8’s handling of web standards. The main concern is whether or not version 8 should support web standards out of the box, or default to IE7’s less strict web standards behavior. Microsoft has gone as far as to make a decision to support IE7’s less strict web standards by default, only to announce that they were wrong and launched IE8 Beta in strict standards mode.
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March 11 2008
New 2A Offices
Some photos of the new 2Advanced office, which coincidentally are the same walls that buy.com began in.
March 5 2008
Internet Explorer 8 “activities”
Activities: Microsoft’s version of microformats? They’re awfully similar & require no work for the developer. The downside? HTML documents will continue to lack the rich markup that microformats offer. We can continue using microformats to mark up our documents of course, but I wonder if this will stagnate their growth.
February 27 2008
SWFObject, External Interface, Internet Explorer
Just a tip. If you’re ever using SWFObject to write out your flash files and ExternalInterface to communicate with them, in Internet Explorer (6 & 7), make sure that the ID of your embedded flash file is all lowercase.
Take this basic code for example, used to mute the audio in a flash file from within HTML:
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February 13 2008
Words in a New Yorker article
A few words I learned (can I say the words were learned, if they’ll likely soon be forgotten?) or liked in The Birthday Party:
- rapacious: excessively greedy and grasping; “a rapacious divorcee on the prowl”; “ravening creditors”.
- heedless: characterized by careless unconcern.
- acquisitive: eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; “an acquisitive mind”.
- antithetical: sharply contrasted in character or purpose; “practices entirely antithetical to her professed beliefs”.
- nadir: The lowest point.
February 12 2008
links for 2008-02-12
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A study based on George Costanza’s double dip activity. Old to some, new to me.
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Interesting stuff, the story of stuff.
February 9 2008
links for 2008-02-09
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Six years of Oscar piracy data on all 186 nominated films from 2003 to 2008
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::selection pseudo element
December 18 2007
jQuery Tool Tips, For & By a Javascript Noob
I’ve recently been using, and falling in love with, a Javascript library you’ve probably heard of - jQuery. So when I needed Tool Tip functionality for a project, the one thing I was sure about was that jQuery was the way to go. I tried writing some things myself and didn’t like the results. Then I tried a couple of different jQuery based Tool Tip plugins, which worked OK, but I knew they were cumbersome & supurfulous.
December 15 2007
Job Description
I’ve been thinking about a potential short and sweet job title / job description for a personal business card that would convey the following:
- Semantic HTML
- W3C Valid HTML
- W3C Valid CSS
- Anti-wysiwyg, hand coding
- Cross browser, cross platform intricacies
- SEO optimized naming conventions & coding techniques
- Google friendly, user friendly URL structures
- Web Standards
- Usability
- Yada Yada
December 8 2007
Across the Universe
The Beatles inspired musical Across the Universe seems to have split the critics between love and hate. One scene you won’t find them discussing takes place within the first 20 minutes of the nearly 3 hour film. It’s my brother Mark’s second time on the big screen, this time in a significantly smaller role credited simply as “football player”. With no lines and less than thirty seconds of camera time, I’m amazed I managed to snap a photo at just the right moment.
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