December 2009
How to Run a Meeting Like Google →
Event Delegation in jQuery and Performance (live... →
Everything is a project, even this « Scott Berkun →
Bolinfest Changeblog: Closure Lite - Just in time... →
Closure Lite is a single JavaScript file that you can include on a web page to start using a subset of the Closure Library. This is similar to the approach used by other popular JavaScript libraries such as jQuery. But as the Closure Lite documentation explains, although Closure Lite is a good way to start learning the Library, it is recommended to learn and use the Closure Compiler on your...
Capn Design: What's Not to Like? →
There a number of gestural ways for readers to indicate interest in content on the web. They all go by different names and representations, which makes it difficult to determine the right solution for your community. Below is an examination of the available options and, hopefully, answers to all of your burning questions.
24 ways: Make Your Mockup in Markup →
In the past we’ve put up with Photoshop because it was vital to achieving our beloved rounded corners, drop shadows, outer glows, and gradients. However, with the recent adaptation of CSS3 in major browsers, and the slow, joyous death of IE6, browsers can render mockups that are just as beautiful as those created in an image editor. With the power of RGBA, text-shadow, box-shadow, border-radius,...
Protect IE from empty img src | NCZOnline →
Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses →
Simon Willison’s second news v. crowdsourcing project in retrospect.
24 ways: Real Fonts and Rendering: The New... →
No, the real elephant in the room‚—the thing few web developers and no “web font” enthusiasts are talking about‚—has to do with legibility (or lack thereof) and aesthetics (or lack thereof) across browsers and platforms. Put simply, even fonts optimized for web use (which is a whole thing: ask a type designer) will not look good in every browser and OS. That’s because every browser treats hinting...
24 ways: Cleaner Code with CSS3 Selectors →
Nice summary of advanced selectors for CSS3 and/or jQuery, where needed.
Nice example of reasons to avoid presentation-only classes server-side.
“The natural inclination right now for geeks of a certain type is to start...”
– The Twitter API is Finished. Now What? - Anil Dash
This zeros in on what I believe is probably the major reason for Twitter’s success: the rule of least power, or its informal cousin “Worse is Better”.
If, for example, you convened a standards body of experts to design an infrastructure to...
“Enough big pimpin’. Let’s bring back small, artisanal pimpin’.”
– Benchitations (via bullshit)
24 ways: Spruce It Up →
Geektastic. I should turn the NBC peacock and Today Show sunrise into a special character set.
WatchTesting, Performance Analysis, and jQuery 1.4
Writing maintainable code | NCZOnline →
Ajaxian » Text to Speech via HTML5 Audio →
Cool.
24 ways: Incite A Riot →
Join me in a campaign of civil disobedience against the unnecessarily restrictive, backwards-incompatible change to the cite element. Start using HTML5 but start using it sensibly. Let’s ensure that bad advice remains fictitious.
hnews-examples · Microformats Wiki →
24 ways: Front-End Code Reusability with CSS and... →
Comments more worthwhile than the article.
The death of if-else, if, and else - Left Right... →
Via Snook.
Dan Shanoff: Comcast-NBC: Online Sports... →
Via Charlie.
“It’s understandable to look to find someone else to blame. But as Rupert Murdoch...”
– Google CEO Eric Schmidt in an op-ed in today’s WSJ, “How Google Can Help Newspapers.” Schmidt counters accusations that Google is profiting off the backs of newspapers, explaining that Google ads next to news search queries only add up to a ” tiny fraction” of its total search revenue. (via...
adaptive path: Two TED Talks Worth Watching →
Bulletproof @font-face syntax « Paul Irish →
High Performance Web Sites: Google Analytics goes... →
“Not only does it make web sites faster, switching over to this async pattern improves uptime and increases the amount of analytics data gathered.”
Empty image src can destroy your site | NCZOnline →
There are two basic problems that this browser behavior causes. The first is a traffic spike. Imagine that have <img src=""> on the page at http://www.example.com/. The big problem is that each instance of <img src=""> makes a request to / in all browsers, which is the homepage of the domain. Congratulations, you’ve effectively doubled your traffic to the homepage.
For small...
Velocity of Media Consumption: TV vs. the Web... →
Eh…kinda?