Category: Opinion

To hell with bad email software

The current state of email clients is such that responsive email is considered one of the most difficult tasks in web-development. It’s time to force the hand of email client developers. In 2001 Jeffrey Zeldman wrote: [Web] standards have been around for years. Browsers that support them have been around for six months to a […]

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Conference Codes of Conduct

Before I begin, I have to say I think codes of conduct are a good thing, an essential element of a well run conference. In fact, I’d go as far to say not having a code of conduct is to neglect your duties as a conference organiser. I know a few people who have organised […]

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Remembering the 90s

John Allsopp had a rant on Twitter recently – as is his want from time to time – he was remarking on vertical rhythm tools around the web and his point boils down to: why do all the vertical rhythm tools for web design use pixels everywhere? I wonder if anyone paid attention at all in class. — […]

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There are no ninjas here

At Floate, we employ three developers. There is one full time developer and two designers who can also develop. None of us are ninjas. Nor are we rock stars. Continue reading at the Floate blog.

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Dear Drupal: Season’s Greetings. Love, Smashing WordPress.

Every day I work with WordPress in one way or another. My Twitter feed is full of WordPress types, and I’m a regular at my local WordPress meetup. I’m a WordPress fan. The White House hosts a number of Web developers who use Drupal every day. Their Twitter feeds are probably full of Drupal types, […]

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Euthenasing Internet Explorer 6

Much of the time website owners & developers decide to drop IE6 support and they forget a key tenet of customer service: it has to be focused on the customer!

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Forms are forms, not lists

I have often seen HTML forms coded as part of a lists, including from some publications and people I highly respect. I believe this to be incorrect.

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Why we host Big Red Tin on US servers

Previously I wrote about sticking with an Australian web hosting provider. Soon after I relocated the Soupgiant sites to an American service provider. Situations change and so I thought I’d explain why.

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jQuery 1.5 as jQuery 1.5.0

When jQuery 1.4 was released, the Google URL being publicised by the jQuery team was http://…/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js – while Google had set it up as http://…/jquery/1.4.0/jquery.min.js. I had problems with this seemingly minor difference.

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Thesis V WordPress, Pearson V Mullenweg

Mullenweg believes that, because WordPress is released under the GPLv2 license, all themes and plugins developed for WordPress must also be released under the same license. Pearson disagrees. I believe that Mullenweg is wrong. WordPress themes can operate on other blogging platforms with minimal changes.

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