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As If URL Shorteners Alone Weren’t Bad Enough, Now They’ve Mated With URL Hijacking Frames
The Digg Bar is the most obvious (and noxious) example, but the new trend of URL shorteners coupled with a URL hijacking frame is spreading alarmingly. More and more I’m seeing this odious technique. These things break bookmarks, wreck navigation cues from the URL and are generally sleazy and rude. And there’s how to beat…
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HTML 5 Notes: The Video Element Rocks
Now if we could just get everyone to support it.
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HTML 5 Notes: In Case a Client Asks… No Full Screen Video
I’m going to be posting a series of notes on the production of my first HTML 5 demo page. I’m doing a presentation on it at work (to be shared here, of course) and I want to capture my thoughts as I have them in the process of producing some fully formed HTML5 content. One…
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JavaScript Perfromance Tip- Don’t Test Against obj.length. Test Against a Local Variable.
I saw it yesterday in some code I was debugging and I realized I’ve become hyper sensitive to this common pattern: var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName(‘a’); if (anchors.length > 0){ for (var i=0; i < anchors.length; i++) { addEvent( anchors[i], 'click', trackLinks ); }; }; Why am I sensitive to it? Well, what are some of…
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An Update on My URL Shortener
The difference in speed between my day job and the after hours hacking I do is sometimes mind-boggling. My day job is a typical “day job”. Anything of note takes time to happen. I’m cool with that. I’m also cool with what happens at home. Where I can get an idea, hit Google for some…