Peter Wilson

Category: Blog

Forms are forms, not lists

December 2, 2010

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.

Opinion

Selectivizr with CSS on a sub-domain

October 25, 2010

Updating the Soupgiant base WordPress theme recently (among other things we were porting it to HTML5), we needed to decide which shims and/or polyfills to use. We starterd with Remy Sharp’s HTML5 enabling script but another to consider was Selectivizr to improve IE‘s support of CSS3 selectors.

Code

A half-baked (CSS) idea

September 21, 2010

Spritebaker has done the rounds a fair bit in web development circles over the past few weeks. It’s a great idea, done well. The only problem is it has the strange effect of making it seem like the page is actually taking longer to load. I take a look at a possible solution.

Code

Why we host Big Red Tin on US servers

September 15, 2010

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.

Opinion

jQuery 1.5 as jQuery 1.5.0

September 7, 2010

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.

Opinion

JavaScript Localisation in WordPress

September 2, 2010

I was asked on Twitter recently if it’s possible to pass WordPress data to JavaScript, wp_localize_script() is the tool to do it with.

Code

Delay Print Stylesheets Plugin

August 27, 2010

A few weeks ago I wrote a post in which I adapted an idea from a zOompf article to delay the loading of print stylesheets until after a web page has fully rendered. I’ve decided to convert the code from the original post into a plugin and add it to the WordPress plugin directory.

Code

Delay loading of print CSS

July 28, 2010

Recently I stumbled across an article detailing browser performance with the CSS print media type. In most recent browsers the print stylesheet held up rendering.

The article suggested a solution, which I decided to automate for WordPress.

Code

Thesis V WordPress, Pearson V Mullenweg

July 15, 2010

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.

Opinion

Getting the bloginfo correctly

July 13, 2010

One of the standout problems when using plugins with WordPress MS is when they define a constant for the plugin’s url as the script starts executing.

Code

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