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As I’ve mentioned I’m doing a couple of HTML5 implementations and in one of them I was faced with some “post” boxes in a WordPress theme that featured both rounded corners and a drop shadow. Since I’m using already using Modernizr, which exposes specific CSS3/HTML5 feature support on the HTML element, I figured I’d do […]
Things are afoot. I’m building out the redesign of Drunkenfist.com, and we’re working on an internal redesign at work. I’ve been toying with the idea of using the new HTML5 semantic elements for both and to that end I took some time to evaluate Modernizr, the small JS library that programatically exposes HTML5/CSS3 feature support […]
I upgraded to Tweetdeck 0.3.0 and I was almost immediately looking for an alternative. There are a few reasons for that (the disappearing columns bug, watching it auto-shorten an already short url) but the biggest issue was the change they made to the behavior of the close button. What did they do? Well, with almost […]
There’s a back story to this one. I once failed to get video progress tracking working with a Flash video player and Big Expensive Analytics Company™ code. It was a real pain in the ass. We missed the deadline, wasted about 8 hours and eventually just dropped the feature. A frustrating experience for all involved. […]
As you could probably guess since Performance is one of the six site categories around here, I’m a fan of WebPageTest. You can imagine my reaction to the news that page load videos are now available from the service. From Recording video with WebPagetest: One of the things we like to look at is what […]