Better Linkable Tabs
Sep 26 2011
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Linking to specific tabs is often done with hash links. I think doing it with a URL parameter can accomplish the same goal without some of the problems that hash links can cause.
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Sep 22 2011
I’ll have a little string of events I’ll be giving talks at.
Radio Buttons with 2-Way Exclusivity
Sep 20 2011
Let’s say you were tasked with creating a UI in which users can rate three candy bars from their most to least favorite. A grid of radio buttons isn’t a terrible way to go about this.
New Poll: What’s Your Favorite Page Title Separator?
Sep 19 2011
Just for silly kicks, let’s keep on with the page title polls, this time with perhaps the most trivial of all choices. The poll is embedded on the site in the sidebar. Let everyone know what your favorite page title separator is. The en-dash? The vertical pipe? THE DOUBLE COLON‽
Poll Results: Favorite Page Title Structure
Sep 19 2011
This was an interesting poll because there is no clear consensus on “the best way” for sites to handle page titles. It varies quite a bit even among similar websites.
Latest Snippets
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- Namespaced Javascript Template
- Underline Individual Words
- Force iframe to Reload
- Turn On More Buttons in the WordPress Visual Editor
- Enable All Possible Post Formats
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Latest Screencast
#101: Let’s Suck at GitHub Together
You are probably pretty aware of why using version control is a good thing. In case you aren't, I quickly go through that in this video. Then we get into the most basic thing we can possibly do: put a project onto GitHub. If you are like me, you don't particularly enjoy "the command line", but between that and a Mac GUI app, we manage to get it done.
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Amazon Silk →
Listen to the engineers behind Amazon's new "Silk" web browser talk about how it uses the cloud to take the load off mobile devices.
Sounds like it does all the asset-requesting for you from the cloud, optimizes it, then sends you down one file that gets rendered into a website. Sounds clever to me, as long as it's secure as hell.
Rumor has it: WebKit based.
Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS →
Jonathan Snook has released an "evolving guide to CSS architecture for sites small and large." My favorite is the "Depth of Applicability" section:
Each rule set that we add to our style sheet creates an ever increasing connection between the CSS and the HTML.
Then goes on to advocate what I would call more gentle CSS selectors that provide more future freedom.
In Praise of the Forums →
Jane Wells of Automattic lays out four reasons why someone may not use forums for a question they have. Then she disputes all four of them while sharing an example of where a forum post get a lot more done than just answers one dude's question.
The bigger the internet gets, the more valuable it is to make Q&A and customer support public.