Chris K
was kind enough to review the tweaks I had made to his original
Updated Today plugin
. He endorsed the removal of
pngfix.js
but complained that my use of
bloginfo()
caused the new plugin to fail on his WordPress install. He also revealed his intent to make certain features of the plugin available to […]
Courtesy of
Weblog Tools Collection
comes
Chris K
’s
Updated Today plugin
, which displays a banner at the top left of your WordPress blog if a post exists in the loop with today’s date as its post date. It is a simple and effective idea, and coded without much fuss; it uses the
wp_head
and
wp_footer
[…]
No, really.
In a magazine, a pullquote can pull a browsing reader into an article by highlighting a provocative comment or deft turn of phrase, or help steel a reader’s resolve to press on, teasing them with a little deferred gratification. That magazine-ey feel can be helpful on sites with long, multi-page articles that are otherwise […]
Some time ago I was asked to build a multi-day date-picking interface that was to accept dates selected from a calendar and display them in a list without making a round-trip to the server. Since this was for a web application with an international audience, I needed to handle different date formats (localization) and languages […]
This might come in handy later:
ECML v1.1: Field Specifications for E-Commerce
Google has an interesting collection of
pages up treating statistics surrounding the construction of web pages
. An interesting read, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Actual user testing of pages read by a screen reader? To determine if source order and skip links really matter?
Brilliant
!
It is becoming fashionable to use JavaScript to add behavior to a page without writing it into the (x)HTML. This is a good thing, in my view. But to do so easily we must either add custom attributes to the markup, or overload the class attribute. I’ve written some functions that make this second approach nearly painless.
I’m intrigued by the possibilities of
user stylesheets
, currently supported reasonably well by the Mozilla browsers (although I have to bounce Firefox 0.8x to see changes; I haven’t investigated the capabilities of other browsers). The basic idea is that in addition to the site author’s stylesheet, you should be able to apply a stylesheet of […]
A number of individuals have posted on their sites handy Pantone Matching System (PMS) to RGB color conversion charts. These can be pretty hefty downloads, but I’ve made a small one…
Recently,
Dave Shea
lamented that ”
there are no automated tools to validate Javascript.
” This is true, but such a tool is well within reach. And with a little bit of work, you can have your own.
Every person poking around with JavaScript
needs
to be aware of the fine work of
Douglass Crockford
, JavaScript guru of […]
I’ve talked a good game about wanting to transform this nascent weblog into an all-singing, all-dancing, object-oriented online application(tm), but have gained little traction in building what will eventually become punyMVc, a minimal Model-View-controller (little “c” on purpose) not-so-much-a-framework-as-a-technique. Why is that?
Yes, lack of time, and perhaps lack of prioritization. But more than that, I […]
Work (in the immortal words of
Scott
) continues apace, with me flying to Indianapolis on Monday to meet one of our biggest customers to pick her brain for enhancements to one of our online therapy management tools, all in the shadow of yet another looming round of layoffs. No discernible buzz this time about our […]
p. I find [semantic markup ponderables] intriguing, and I strive to use the “right” markup wherever possible, selecting tags and structures that at least share a strong kinship with the meaning of their contents or the function of those contents within the document. But it is easy to overthink this�