File:en-uk-hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.ogg - Wiktionary
Only the most awesome word EVER!
january 2012
How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers
august 2011
"As a web developer, learning the internals of browser operations helps you make better decisions and know the justifications behind development best practices. While this is a rather lengthy document, we recommend you spend some time digging in; we guarantee you'll be glad you did."
html
javascript
css
dom
newbie
august 2011
You are NOT a Software Engineer!
may 2011
You are not a software engineer. You are a software gardener.
dev
newbie
may 2011
Learn How to Make Websites
may 2011
A good collection of pointers to introductory, intermediate and advanced material on HTML, CSS and JavaScript
html
css
javascript
newbie
may 2011
JavaScript Garden
april 2011
JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their endeavours into the depths of the language.
JavaScript Garden does not aim to teach you JavaScript. Former knowledge of the language is strongly recommended in order to understand the topics covered in this guide.
javascript
newbie
JavaScript Garden does not aim to teach you JavaScript. Former knowledge of the language is strongly recommended in order to understand the topics covered in this guide.
april 2011
What is Vertical Align?
december 2010
Nice visual demonstrations of each of the possible values of vertical-align.
css
newbie
from delicious
december 2010
Techies race to find lost iPad - Story - Nightline - TV Shows - 3 News
december 2010
Where I make another appearance as a movie star :p
me
december 2010
Named function expressions demystified
october 2010
My take on it: not worth the hassle of doing it correctly given the frequency I come across this as a pain point
javascript
october 2010
Stop (Mis)Using Return False
september 2010
Correct use of stopping event propagation and bubbling; talks about jQuery but is equally applicable to other frameworks like YUI.
javascript
dom
newbie
september 2010
Caching Improvements in Internet Explorer 9
july 2010
All about caching in Internet Explorer. Includes new heuristics for "Check for newer versions of stored pages: Automatically" setting.
http
newbie
july 2010
The Sad Story of PNG Gamma “Correction”
june 2010
Stripping nasty gamma information from PNG images: pngcrush -rem gAMA -rem cHRM -rem iCCP -rem sRGB infile.png outfile.png
css
colour
web
june 2010
Loopback Adapter Network Identification
may 2010
For getting a loopback adapter to not get identified as an "unidentified network" that is subject to firewall restrictions.
windows
may 2010
CSS hacks to target specific IE versions
february 2010
I need a reference because I keep forgetting these.
css
february 2010
10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit
december 2009
My bugbears are crimes 1, 2 and 8.
newbie
ux
december 2009
Browser screen information
november 2009
Specifically the image with the text "The User's Display Screen" in it. Note the suckiness of information exposed by Internet Explorer, making it impossible to correctly center windows opened via JavaScript.
dom
november 2009
Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps: position static relative absolute float
october 2009
This tutorial has good visual examples to help grok how different positioning schemes work.
css
newbie
october 2009
HOW TO: Turn Off the Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.x "Show Friendly HTTP Error Messages" Feature on the Server Side
september 2009
Executive summary: make sure the content length of error responses are larger than 512 bytes.
kb
http
september 2009
Conditional Requests and the WinInet Cache (aka Internet Explorer caching settings explained)
august 2009
Most developers don't understand what these settings do and unnecessarily modify them from the default setting. Don't be one of those people.
http
newbie
august 2009
How Forms Submit When Pressing ‘Enter’
july 2009
I've written a test page to investigate this behaviour in the past. This is more complete, and shared with the world to see! Kudos!
html
javascript
dom
july 2009
The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection
july 2009
An in-depth analysis of what goes on during the start of an HTTPS connection
http
newbie
july 2009
An Unnofficial Q&A about the Discontinuation of the XHTML2 WG
july 2009
"The marketing kind (XHTML served using the text/html MIME type) is processed just like HTML by browsers but the authors attempt to observe slightly different syntax rules in order to make it seem that they are doing something newer and shinier compared to HTML."
html
newbie
july 2009
Image Optimization, Part 5: AlphaImageLoader
june 2009
The ins and outs of using the AlphaImageLoader for PNGs with alpha transparency in IE 6.
web
colour
june 2009