February 14, 2003 – 1:44 pm
Netscape has redesigned their DevEdge site with loads of standards-compliant goodness. Their hybrid CSS/DHTML menus are exactly what I’ve been looking for! Wow, not only do they use proper semantic markup for the menu structure, but advanced browsers (i.e. Mozilla-based) will still get the dropdowns even if Javascript is disabled. . [...]
December 4, 2002 – 7:52 am
I figured I’d better bookmark this before I forget. Chris Nott (c.f. Dithered)has a new Javascript API that ports the DOM2 events API to older versions of Internet Explorer. Mmmm…. Cross-browser goodness.
October 25, 2002 – 12:45 pm
I’ve spent some spare minutes here and there over the last several days working on a new theme for the site. Try out my Halloween Theme.
Theme switching requires Javascript and at least a moderately modern browser. . [...]
Yeah, yeah…. No updates in a while. I’ve been in the zone at work, and haven’t had time to get online from home.
Over the last week or so, I’ve spent a lot of time hacking my way through some SOAP::Lite and XMLRPC::Lite voodoo. After converting one of my perl libraries into a proper module, I was able to implement an XML-RPC server in about 7 lines of code (20 lines, if you include blank lines, comments, and some unnecessary stuff). [...]
Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I’ve stayed pretty busy at work, and at home, too. But it’s been a good kind of busy. Yesterday at work, we got our web team together and finally settled on a template and structure for a redesign of our company web site. This is something I’ve been itching to do since I started working here 2 years ago. Our web site has a lot of good features, as transportation industry sites go, but the structure and design are….haphazard (not my fault, it was like that before I got here).
I also got to help out our friends Ray and Rebecca of Post House Production. [...]
January 28, 2002 – 1:22 pm
Eric Costello (of glish.com fame) has an excellent article on Remote Scripting with IFRAME. . [...]
January 16, 2002 – 7:20 am
There’s an old saying in the computing field: “The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.” Funny, but true. Too true.
This is a topic I read a lot about. You can find essays and articles all over the web by people like Jeffrey Zeldman, Scott Andrew Lepara, or this article at Web Techniques by Molly E. Holzschlag.
The rant always has a common thread running through it: when are the browser makers going to actually follow the standards (or should I say recommendations) set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium?
Things have gotten better in the last couple of years, sure. [...]
November 30, 2001 – 7:13 am
A couple of cool gadgets spotted from slashdot: the Handspring Treo is a combination PDA and cell phone. There’s another PDA/phone combo called the HipTop, which runs Java and also has options for a camera and MIDI synth. Wow. . [...]
November 28, 2001 – 9:01 am
Some time back, I was working on some code at work where we wanted to dynamically disable and re-enable certain form elements based on other user input. Internet Explorer adds a “disabled” property to form elements that makes this simple. But Netscape 4.x doesn’t.
I eventually came up with some Javascript code that more-or-less simulates the ability to disable form elements in NS4. . [...]
