Note: This site might seem inactive… That’s because it is. Don’t worry though, I’m still coding webpages and stuff! If you’re interested, I suggest you get a translator and head over to Qiwi; or you could just check the latest site we’ve been working on: Apotheek Goethals – Debrabandere. Enjoy!
Topics: HTTP
The basics of becoming a browser nazi (9)
On in what ways the world of web developers would be a better place if only IE wasn’t shit. Read more →
Using WordPress as a blogroll manager (11)
After blo.gs started to temporarily
disable their search feature, I got pissed. It’s been months since the last time I was able to add a site to my own feckin’ blogroll. That’s right, I was using a WP plugin to fetch my links from the rather slow blo.gs server every hour or so and cache the list locally. Read more →
Online CSS compressors (6)
Dave writes in on CSS optimization. I won’t get into the discussion on whether the optimization compression of CSS files is actually worth the effort or not; instead I’ll try to make a comparison of online tools that do this. The article I linked to (well, more the comments on it) contains some good links. I went and used my current CSS as a 10,241-byte test file. Most tools allow you to set some options, such as readability (i.e. compression rate) and whether or not long hex codes should be shortened if possible. I didn’t enable options just for the sake of it — only those I would use in a real-life situation. Read more →
XHTML content negotiation through PHP (17)
The most obvious one of the many perils of using XHTML properly, is of course the fact that IE cannot handle the application/xhtml+xml MIME type. Unless you don’t mind if your site can’t be visited through that wanna-be–browser, this means that you’ll have to serve up your XHTML pages as application/xhtml+xml where possible, but as text/html to the crappier ones. Stuff like this is called content negotiation. Read more →
- I quickly blogmarked the free cache trick thing Taylor showed us earlier this week, but now that I made a favelet for it, I felt like I had to write a “real” post about it. For those who don’t know what the hell I’m talking about: just by placing
.nyud.net:8090after a page’s domain name, you can cause it to be cached in a big network of free caching computers. Cool eh? Well, here’s the favelet (my first ever!): Free Cache. Happy caching! (0) ¶
Photo Gallery URIs (11)
It is a problem. Ever since Markku announced that iPAP shall soon (?) have a MySQL backend, I’ve been wondering about my photo gallery. Not the one on Flickr, but the one on this very site. I’m assuming there won’t be an upgrade script included in iPAP 1.0 — which is fine, I’m sure Markku is a busy man —, so I’ll start a new gallery from scratch then. (Even if there will be such a script, a fresh install won’t hurt.) Read more →
- I could swear it wasn’t like this five minutes ago.
Check it out, Google search result pages no longer link directly to the resulting pages. In fact, those links now look likehttp://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=$1&q=$2&e=747, in which$icontains the position on the search results page, and$2is the link’s URI. Why oh why is that? Update: It has vanished! Google went back to what it was before. I managed to recover the second page of search results for “shizzle my nizzle y’all” from my cache. So check that out, too, and note how$1goes from11to20. (9) ¶
Web Design Canon (12)
A canon is a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy.
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Removing www. from your IRI (30)
In case you hate the www. part in your website’s IRI (like I started doing about two months ago) you can let others—including search engines—know about that by redirecting every page accessed through a www.-like IRI to a non-www. IRI. (What a mouthful.) Matt seemed to have a script like this, but never replied to my post asking for it on the WP forums… Oh, well. Read more →