BurningbirdI downloaded the first alpha of Shiretoko, or Firefox 3.1, and I’m delighted to see the text-shadow I have attached to my site name showing up in a Firefox browser. Not just text-shadow, Mozilla has also added JavaScript query selectors to this release, which means that we can query for all elements of a given class […]
I put the finishing touches to the draft for my current book, and now it begins the technical review process. I don’t want to say it’s my last book, but there is no other on the horizon, as I return to the world of software development and consulting. First, though, I need to spend time upgrading […]
In reply to the IEBlog web post that is asking people to apply for the right to submit a bug: Why, on earth, when other browser developers provide open and easy to use bug systems, would Microsoft limit itself in this way? I have a bug in Webkit, five minutes can help me determine if someone had already […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Popular Mechanics has an excellent article of the dirty little secret of HDTV: that there are no true standards or specifications in place defining what exactly is “high definition TV”. Because of this, the article’s writer, Glenn Derene, writes, the quality of broadcast we get from providers, varies. Considerably. For instance, […]
Scott at Lazycoder writes on his recent job interview experiences. Certification and licensing should be about setting a base level of competency. You shouldn’t have to ask someone what the difference between a div and a span element is during a phone screen if they are a licensed web developer. You shouldn’t ask a C++ developer to […]