Centering images
An excellent article explaining the pros and cons of different image-centering methods. I love when I find something that gives me exactly the answer I need.
Category: front-end development
Could the brilliant people at Google please just solve this already?
Ajaxian has the latest article I’ve come across about remote Javascript using document.write() (and a bit of a related issue when it comes to Google Analytics). They a link to yet another way to get around it by hijacking the browser’s document.write(), just as John Resig suggested to me the last time I complained about […]
Another cautionary remote Javascript tale
It sounds like TechCrunch got burnt yesterday by some remote Javascript appearing too high in their pages’ HTML. Visitors’ browsers were waiting and waiting for the remote script to load, and refusing to render the rest of the page until it did.
All we knew is that our sites all simultaneously went down three times yesterday. […]
Remote Javascript with document.write() is killing me
I have been coming across way too much remote Javascript that uses document.write() to insert its contents. From ad providers to video hosting services, it’s common practice to provide a Javascript tag like:
<script src="http://some-remote-server.com/some-tiny-file.js" type="text/javscript"></script>
and tell the site owner to just include it in their page where the ad or content should appear.
This is […]
Bye bye YUI bloat
I’ve been doing some serious work this week cutting down on YUI bloat — our site was including the entire YUI library at the top of every page, at a cost of more than 200k. Worse, because the library was included at the top of every page, the rest of the page had to wait […]
I have discovered a use for Dreamweaver’s design view (no really)
I just got a request to edit a static page that showed several of a company’s employees. Turns out that a bunch of them aren’t employees anymore, and the client wanted the page to be updated. I knew before I even opened it that the content was going to be in tables (nested nested tables, […]
ColorZilla 2
Go get it — just for the DOM color analysis, if nothing else. If only it were integrated with Firebug, it would be perfect.
Unobtrusive, cross-browser method to add icons to links
There are lots of examples of using CSS to add filetype icons to links, but they all rely on advanced CSS selectors, which Internet Explorer 6 doesn’t support.
If you’re looking for a cross-browser method of adding filetype icons to links, you have a couple of choices: you can add a class name to all […]
Salivating over server-side Javascript
I came across The End of Web Frameworks in my dzone RSS feed this morning, and it echoes a thought that runs through my brain as I get more and more comfortable with jQuery: who needs the server when you’ve got Javascript? Wouldn’t it be great if the server just handed out data, and the […]
Revisiting rebeccamurphey.com
In the summer of 2006, I decided to put together a small web site to show the work I’d been doing, in hopes of landing a full-fledged web job. It didn’t take long before I had an offer from webslingerz, where I’ve been for the last year and a half.
I’ve updated my resume a […]
