Just a quick note to myself…
I’m working on a navigation system that uses CSS image replacement. To hide the text, CSS shifts it out of view by using the text-indent property and a big negative value. However, a side-effect of this is that when you click on a link, the dotted border that appears while [...]
One of my personal nightmares goes as follows: I’m working on an existing MySQL-based system, adding or changing something that involves altering existing database tables. I do what I need to, commit the code and then realise that I need to make the database changes too…only I’ve forgotten to keep track of the edits I’ve [...]
For reasons that I might outline in another post sometime, I recently decided to replace MooTools as the JavaScript library behind our company CMS (which I’m in the process of rewriting from scratch) with jQuery.
It’s been a few weeks now since I made the decision and I’m starting to become more comfortable with jQuery’s quite [...]
A few brief entries from the ‘tiny yet annoying bugs that take far too much time to fix’ file…
I’m creating forms dynamically using JavaScript. This has led to a number of problems with IE6:
Dynamic checkboxes/radio buttons and the ‘checked’ attribute
When creating a field, I wanted to be able to apply a ‘default’ value — for [...]
OK, everyone’s talking about Google’s ‘new’ browser (check out the comic for an easy introduction) and everyone’s going to have an opinion. Here’s mine, based on a few hours’ use.
First (and lasting) impression: damn, it’s fast. It starts fast, it renders pages fast, it stays fast. JavaScript in particular is noticeably smoother where in other [...]