Setting Far Future Expires Headers For Images In Amazon S3

Summary: Amazon S3 is a great option for (among other things) image hosting, YSlow is a great little tool for uncovering performance related issues with a site and using Bucket Explorer allows a person to easily upload files to the S3 service while setting custom headers. Using the tool to set far future expires headers […]

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 […]

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

Don’t believe me? Check it out:

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 […]

JSON Feeds For Fun and Profit, Part One- Del.icio.us makes it easy

Confession time: I’ve never actually worked with a JSON feed. No, really. I know what you’re thinking… Yes, you’re right. I’ve built a bunch of Ajax-y components and one full blown application over the past two years. No, in light of that it doesn’t make any sense that I haven’t used JSON before.