Never too old
At 94, my granddad decided to get a computer and onto the internet.
Dedicated to R Feltscheer, 1-1-1912 – 22-11-2009.
Category: Blog
Charging for themes? Do the right thing!
Of all the Wordpress functions, I think wp_register_script, wp_register_style, wp_enqueue_script, and, wp_enqueue_style are the most elegant.
Partying like it’s 1999
Within a couple of months of writing that I prefered my own base JavaScript file to an exisiting framework, I was a convert to jQuery. Why the turnaround?
How to get 4.3 stars for customer service!
I’m about to give a positive review to Soupgiant’s host, QuadraHosting, due to their customer service, despite some major technical problems in recent months. This leads to one question: Am I being too nice?
Including WordPress’s comment-reply.js (the right way)
Since threaded comments were enabled in Wordpress 2.7, most themes check if the visitor is browsing either a page or a post and adds the JavaScript required for threaded comments if they are.
I prefer a slight variation
Career Stats: Shane Warne the Musical (.com.au)
Very generously, the producers of Shane Warne the Musical have given me access to their website stats for the purposes of this post.
Caching on the Google AJAX Libraries API
Using the Google Ajax Libraries API, there are several options for specifying the version numbers of the library you wish to use, for example, three URLs point to the latest version of jQuery.
Why I will not be dropping support for IE6
Increasingly I’m reading of web developers deciding to drop IE6 from their list of supported browsers, usually, because of its creative interpretation of CSS standards, besides IE7 is over a year old, and, IE8 about to be released.
JavaScript Equal Height Columns
The desire for equal height columns in a CSS layout is nothing new; there are many solutions available, some use JavaScript, others use CSS with negative margins, and then, there’s the faux columns method using background images. All of these methods have their place as perfectly valid solutions, and, depending on the situation, may be the best solution available.
Base JavaScript File
Upcoming posts on JavaScript will include references to functions in my base JavaScript file; rather than explain these functions each time, they?ll be detailed in this post for future reference.