Let's Build the Web We Want
This being a technology blog, with plenty of code samples being posted on a regular basis, it’s no surprise I give soem thought as to how that code is displayed. Personally I’ve gone for the old school, green on black text (using the excellent code font Consolas, where possible.) I like the way it looks. […]
Announcing webOSdev I’m very pleased to announce that effective today we are wrapping up the webOS early access program. We are doing this because today we opened up the program to everyone and released our new public developer portal at http://developer.palm.com. This is the culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]