Bing Launches Twitter Search (and I’m Writing About the Real Time Web Over At AWiderNet)

Mashable broke the story earlier today and withing a couple of hours Microsoft launched bing.com/twitter Web 2.0 Summit. First impression? I don’t like the look of the tag cloud. C’Mon, Microsoft, you can be cooler than that. One thing I do like is the timing of it as I just wrote a big-ass article on […]

I’m Excited About the New Google Analytics Engagement Goals Feature

Since I run so many content-centric sites, I’ve never really had much use for Google Analytics’ goals. It’s one thing when you’re doing lead generation or ecommerce. Those goals are clear and easy to define. Someone filled out a form? Goal reached. Someone hit a thank you page for purchasing a book? Goal reached. For […]

Default HTML Rendering in 81 Browsers Visualized

The following is a test of this page of unstyled, generic markup performed in 81 browsers. I used browsercam to take screen captures, then imported the resulting captures into Photoshop. In Photoshop, I zeroed out the top/left coordinates of the HTML canvas (not to be confused with the Canvas element,) and then set the Opacity […]

Sample HTML Markup Used To Style Common Text Elements

The following is what we use to lay down the most common text styles. This is honestly more than we usually need, but it helps ensure we don’t miss anything when real content is flowed into a design. I thought it might be useful for folks to use in their own projects. I’ve got a […]

My Bookshelf. Books on JavaScript, Python, Linux, WebOS, etc.

Here are the books that sit next to me at work. No, there are no HTML or CSS books. I haven’t felt the need to dive into those subjects, in depth, since 1999. Based on the foundation I got from studying specs and experimenting in 1998-2000, I can read the occasional A List Apart article, […]