Belt and Suspenders- Flash Embed With SWFObject and Conditional Comments

If you’re using Flash and you want the best possible coverage (meaning it works with users who don’t have JS turned on) while still using something like SWFObject where possible to get around the “click here to activate and use this control” ActiveX message in Internet Explorer, then take a look at the ridiculous pattern […]

A Three Column CSS Layout Using Just an Unordered List

Why do such a thing? For fun, of course- and to expand on a point I made today at work… Some background- I’m working with a new guy who is not so savvy to modern HTML/CSS layout techniques and today, while talking to him about some potential techniques he might use for an upcoming site, […]

Did you know- 8 Bit PNG transparency is just like an old school transparent Gif

Don’t believe me? Check it out:

Automatically Track Outgoing Links in Google Analytics with Javascript

I’m currently reading the O’Reilly Google Analytics book, so of course I’m going to sandbox some stuff (albeit not here at this site.) One of the first things I seized on was the ability to track outgoing links by calling the urchinTracker() function onclick. Taking a few minutes out of my morning I put this […]

The difference between javascript's getElementById() and getElementsByName()

The above question is one I’ve gotten in my logs a couple of times. I don’t actually answer it anywhere on the site, so I figured I might as well answer it here. For some strange reason, in my mellowed old age, I’m all about helping and I haven’t written about web technologies in about […]