Two Front End Development Interview Questions No One Has Been Getting Recently + One I’m Afraid to Even Ask

Yes, I’m still helping out with screening candidates. I haven’t yet interviewed someone to replace me, but there’s still a week to go. Anyway, we’ve had a couple of technical questions that candidates universally failed to answer. Why share them here? For starters I just want to know if we’re crazy to expect people to […]

Rethinking the “How To Serve IE-Specific CSS” Question

This is my old pattern: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en-US"> <title>Internet Exploder</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/_assets/styles/styles.css" /> <!–[if gte IE 5.5]> <![if lt IE 7]> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/_assets/styles/ie6.css" /> <![endif]> <![if IE 7]> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/_assets/styles/ie7.css" /> <![endif]> <![if gt IE 7]> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/_assets/styles/ie8.css" /> <![endif]> <![endif]–> </head> <body id="home"> Simple. It serves a new style […]

Recent Reading (30 Style Tags?, YUI 3, GodMode, Git, Jira)

Once again rounding up some of the articles I’ve read over the past couple of weeks. All style tags after the first 30 style tags on an HTML page are not applied in Internet Explorer I wasn’t surprised to see this came up as an issue in the Drupal community. During my short time working […]

Microsoft’s CSS Filters, Could The Syntax Be Any Uglier?

The answer is no 🙂 While some of the functionality of MS’s CSS filters is actually pretty useful (sue me, I need to use them from time to time), the implementation is ugly as hell. Ryan, one of the smart guys here that helps me fool people into thinking I know what I’m doing, had […]

Want to Test Your Site Without a Mouse For Accessibility’s Sake? These Keyboard Shortcuts Will Help

Once thing that’s vital to testing the accessibility of a web app or site is running through it without using a mouse. If you can successfully work a site or app without touching the mouse, you’ve gone a long way towards ensuring that your site is available to a wide range of people and devices. […]