Mr. Webpage

jQ.Mobi

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:39:06 -0800

jquery rewritten for mobile. smaller, faster.

CSS selector search/replace for html editors

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:12:25 -0800

Why doesn’t it exist? Quick, somebody, make an eclipse plugin. (and by ‘quick’ I obviously mean start a committee and work on it for a couple years. Gooooooo eclipse!)

A List Apart: Articles: Expanding Text Areas Made Elegant

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:15:47 -0700

A List Apart: Articles: Expanding Text Areas Made Elegant:

This is a nice technique but I wouldn’t exactly call it elegant. Maintaining a copy of the content in the textarea just to set the height of the textarea is always a hack, no matter how clean the code is. This is pretty clean code though.

Dart: A language for structured web programming (Chromium Blog)

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:21:05 -0700

Dart: A language for structured web programming (Chromium Blog):

My first reaction was not positive. But after reading some more of the details and considering the alternatives, I think Dart could be a good thing.

At a glance, it looked like Google was just trying to make Java for the client side (which is funny considering that’s what Java thought it was for). But it’s not quite that.

The main thing is that the developer gets to decide how strongly typed something is. Which is nice. I wish JS was more strongly typed sometimes, and I wish Java was less strongly typed often. Being able to choose what’s right for the situation… WANT!

And writing in a language that was designed to have sensible class definitions, rather than having it grafted on by something like DojoToolkit (leaving behind all sorts of weird syntax quirks) would also be a boon.

I’m going to keep my eye on Dart.

320 and up

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:13:56 -0700

320 and up:

Somebody mentioned this to me today. Looks interesting. WIll investigate.

A/B Testing Tech Note: determining sample size - (37signals)

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:50:25 -0700

A/B Testing Tech Note: determining sample size - (37signals)

CSS: Taking control of the cascade - (37signals)

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:12:40 -0700

CSS: Taking control of the cascade - (37signals):

Nice recap of using Compiled CSS for more than just some convenience functions. Some discussion in the comments about perf claim OOCSS is the best bang for the buck.

But the developer benefits of the technique described could outweigh the perf benefits of OOCSS in some situations.

The article describes a pretty little technique, though it does...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:21:36 -0700

The article describes a pretty little technique, though it does expose a certain gap in CSS/JS. An array of stylesheets, each containing an array of rules, is a terrible abstraction. It leads to the keyframes = stuff you see in the screenshot: generating CSS as text. It would be nice to have a dynamic css class definition library.

On the other hand, if the world had a dynamic css class definition library, the first thing to happen would be it’s horrible horrible abuse. Every event (hover, click, keypress) would cause the entire page to redraw. IE would just melt down. In short, pandemonium. So maybe it’s best we just continue to specify every browser’s styles in our static css files.

(via Detecting and generating CSS animations in JavaScript)

How to Simulate CSS3 box-shadow in IE6-8 Without JavaScript.

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:15:14 -0700

How to Simulate CSS3 box-shadow in IE6-8 Without JavaScript.

InfoQ: Why I Chose MongoDB for guardian.co.uk

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:36:12 -0700

InfoQ: Why I Chose MongoDB for guardian.co.uk:

Nice talk on mongoDB.

LukeW | An Event Apart: CSS Best Practices

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:45:58 -0700

LukeW | An Event Apart: CSS Best Practices:

Nicole Sullivan started the OOCSS, of which I’m a fan. These are somebody’s notes from her talk. She has good stuff to say.

Google Redesign

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:41:30 -0700

The goog has always had it’s minimalist, function over form, ascetic. To be honest, it was a bit ugly. But that’s been fine, because it worked.

The latest redesign, though. I’ve gotta say. It’s nice. For the first time ever I actually enjoy looking at google pages. I keep noticing it every time I do a search.

Preliminary review of new google web fonts page: nice! It still...

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:57:59 -0700

Preliminary review of new google web fonts page: nice!

It still has some rough edges, like icons that don’t really mean anything and don’t have tooltips. It can slow because it’s loading over 100 fonts. But it’s nice.

(via The New Face of Google Web Fonts - Google Web Fonts)

You know you’ve over engineered when… …testing...

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:59:29 -0700

You know you’ve over engineered when…

…testing a boolean variable for truth involves importing a library.

(via BooleanUtils (Commons Lang 3.0-SNAPSHOT API))

Fastersite: How a web page loads

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:14:18 -0700

Fastersite: How a web page loads:

An brief overview of why JS blocks page rendering. Good knowledge.

via… somebody. This tab has been open for 3 days. I don’t remember where it came from. So to whomever linked to this, thanks!

What David Mitchell says about making video machines applies...

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:45:43 -0700

What David Mitchell says about making video machines applies just as strongly to making webpages.
“That’s the problem with machines, they’re designed by people who love them. Geeks like new features, general users do not.”

Machines | David Mitchell’s Soapbox (by davidmitchellsoapbox)

Pure hotness. (via Pure CSS speech bubbles – Nicolas Gallagher)

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:17:33 -0700

Pure hotness.

(via Pure CSS speech bubbles – Nicolas Gallagher)

"As of August 1st, we will discontinue support for the following browsers and their predecessors:..."

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:17:59 -0700

“As of August 1st, we will discontinue support for the following browsers and their predecessors: Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3.”

- That’s right trendsetters. Set some trends.

Since IE7 is the new IE6, this is a welcome announcement.

via Our plans to support modern browsers across Google Apps - Official Gmail Blog

"There are an awful lot of technology companies, founded by programmers, who think they are building..."

Thu, 26 May 2011 08:13:56 -0700

“There are an awful lot of technology companies, founded by programmers, who think they are building communities on the Internet, but they’re really just building software and wondering why the community doesn’t magically show up.”

- Modern community building - Joel on Software

I’ve learned this lesson myself at least 3 times. TBH, I don’t think Joel’s brand new role of ‘super-evangelist’ is new. Flickr had those guys in 2005. It’s a good plan though; communities require management.

Even when they reach “critical mass” communities require management. You may choose to offload that work to community members, or you may not. Once you cede your controlling influence the community can go anywhere.

DTerm: A command line anywhere and everywhere

Sun, 22 May 2011 21:24:02 -0700

DTerm: A command line anywhere and everywhere:

A handy little thingimumy, despite two copies of the website’s intro video playing simultaneously in chrome.