Presentation Done. Thanks to all Who Attended.

My presentation went well, I think. It started a little later than I would have liked, and I didn’t have any water (insane? yes.) but overall it was a lot of fun. People seemed interested, which is the important part. The really interesting news is that the presentation was recorded, so I should be able […]

I Don’t Care About Developers. I Care About Users.

Okay, okay… I’m guilty. The title is provocative and slightly misleading. I do care about developers. Developers are my people and I want nothing but the best for them. That said, when I’m sitting down planning a site, application or component, my first thought isn’t about making things easier for developers. It’s about making things […]

getElementsByTagNameNS. Now I Know. And Knowing is Half the Battle.

Yesterday I was wondering why obj.getElementsByTagName wasn’t working in Safari/WebKit on a tag with a namespace prefix. I wondered, aloud, whether or not it was just something I was ignorant of. It turns out that was the case. Dom Level 2 added new namespace specific methods to search through documents or document fragments for tags […]

Of Interest- the Google Chrome Operating System

Between Palm letting me code directly on a killer handheld device, HTML5 starting to show up in real browsers and now Google saying things like the following [my emphasis], it’s a damn fine time to be coding on the front end: Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and […]

getElementsByTagName Namespace Prefix Strangeness in Safari/Chrome/WebKit

Is It Me or the Browser? I had a Safari bug on a project I’m rushing to get out the door. We’re using a Flickr feed to populate a div with link+thumbnail to some flickr images. In Firefox/Internet Explorer I simply did the following to build the links: flickr : function(obj) { //get the full […]