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Spring Cleaning
You might notice a new look to the blog. If you’re viewing this post in an RSS reader, pop on over and have a look. The old theme was quite cluttered and not particularly pretty. I had made some design decisions based around a bunch of widgets and some advertising, rather than designing around the [...]
Why is it so Difficult?
A famous blogger discovers the obvious. Yes, Writely “supports” the Metaweblog API, as people have been discovering over the past week. I put “supports” in quotes because the support sucks. Why is it so hard? Even Dave’s hastily hacked together mobile blogging tool makes a correct post to my WordPress blog, but Writely drops the [...]
Redesign: Take Two
Update: OK I’m going to call that done. Can I just say for the record that rounded corners were certainly not the new black when HTML was designed. Endless nested divs were required to get the right-hand rounded corners to slide nicely over the background when the page is resized. Still, the end effect is [...]
Redesign?
I’ve been thinking about Good Web Design of late, and wondering if Gadgetophile doesn’t need a bit of a makeover. It was only recently that I hacked the latest design together from another WordPress template, but I can’t help feeling that it’s a little bit cluttered. I’ve embraced advertising since the last redesign, and the [...]
Out Damn Ampersand!
I’m a bit of a stickler for perfection, and in terms of the interweb, perfection starts with valid XHTML. I just can’t help but feel dirty in some way when the all powerful validator returns errors. So you can imagine my chagrin when the validator started complaining about a dirty ampersand in my page. Upon [...]
Slashdot Goes CSS
The gray old man of geek news sites, Slashdot, has finally migrated away from its ancient table-based layout to an almost-compliant HTML4 and CSS layout. Not much news in this, but I’m impressed by the cajones of the Slashdot guys. When I do layout updates to this site, I have to worry about pissing off [...]
Going Mobile
I figured since I’m such a PDA geek, I’d better at least have a mobile version of this site. And why do something yourself when someone else has already made a WordPress plugin to do it for you? Anyway, you can see how the mobile version works here (or spoof your useragent to something like [...]
Avast!
Arrr ye scurvy bilge rats! In celebration of the best day of the year, I’ve tweaked the site layout. However I be havin’ a bit o’ a problem with that great bane of all pirates, Internet Explorer. Take a gander at these two shots and tell me why Internet Explorer is givin’ me a whole [...]
Handling XmlHttp Asynchronous Callbacks
Sometimes you stumble across a piece of code that uses a totally obscure but at the same time supremely simple implementation. This one relates to XmlHttpRequests, or asynchronous web requests, or AJAX, or whatever you feel like calling it. Basically variations on the XmlHttp theme allow you to make a call to one web page [...]
RRS on IE7 on Longhorn
It’s hard to say whether this is hugely interesting or totally irrelevant. I mean of course Microsoft’s next browser would have RSS integration. Can you imagine the uproar if they left it out? Even so, the geeks at Gnomedex seem to be foaming over this. Microsoft seem to be playing nice by releasing their extensions [...]
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