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:
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 →
Highlighting alternate sorttable rows (20)
Or, a way how to highlight alternate table rows without breaking the table’s JavaScript-wise sortability. Or the other way around. Whatever. Read more →
- Via del.icio.us I stumbled upon The Real-time HTML Editor™. This indeed is a cool little tool for experimenting with (X)HTML, though I found its code could be better. A couple of Bad Things it involves are frames, hard refreshes, and no semantics. Since live previews are commonly-used bits of JS in the world of weblogs, I figured this could be done better. And look: even I managed to create an online HTML editor with real-time preview and no hard refreshes! How cool is that? :) (10) ¶
WordPress plugin: Dunstan’s tag transformations (9)
It’s a well-known fact that Dunstan’s tag transformations move back and forth rock. Ever since that article was published, I’ve been using the code insertion script for erm… inserting code snippets in my posts. At first, I implemented the PHP functions by simply hacking the WordPress core files. Obviously — WP “Mingus” 1.2 didn’t have much of a plugin API. Those days are over now. Read more →
WordPress: How to enable HTML in post titles (16)
WordPress doesn’t allow you to embed HTML in your posts’s titles. In fact, this is not a WordPress problem, it’s more a lack of usability in Kubrick, the default WP theme. So, unless you’re following Anne’s A header should not be a link, stupid! logic, there is no way to embed code in your posts’s titles without breaking the title attributes of a certain amount of links, thus making your pages invalid. 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 →
The World’s Longest Web Page (42)
I was flickin’ through my copy of Guinness World Records 2001 when I read the following: In March 1999, Ralf Laue (Leipzig, Germany), made a web page with a length of 563.6 kilometres and a file size of only 21,698 kB.
Say what? Let’s get a little mathematic on this. 563.6 kilometres equals 563.6 * 1000 * 100 = 56,360,000 centimetres, which is ( 56,360,000 * 72.000 ) / 2.540 = 1,597,606,299 pixels on a resolution of 72.000 pixels per inch (one inch equals 2.540 centimetres). So, to break the record basically all you need is a page with a height of 1,597,606,300 pixels. :) Read more →
- Inspired by Anne van Kesteren’s Dutch flag in CSS, which was in turn inspired by the Canadian flag in CSS linking a British flag in CSS, I created (guess what) the Belgian flag in CSS. Since the three bars aren’t quite horizontal, this is not as easy to “design” as for example the German CSS flag, but hey, I managed. Consider this a CSS stunt. (13) ¶
Obfuscating email addresses (19)
John linked Stu Nicholls’s email address hiding method through CSS a couple of days ago, and I was amazed. Amazed by the few bytes of code wherewith you can prevent your email address from being spotted by some silly spam bot. Read more →
temporarilydisable 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 →
title attributes of a certain amount of links, thus making your pages invalid. Read more →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 →In March 1999, Ralf Laue (Leipzig, Germany), made a web page with a length of 563.6 kilometres and a file size of only 21,698 kB.Say what? Let’s get a little mathematic on this. 563.6 kilometres equals
563.6 * 1000 * 100 = 56,360,000 centimetres, which is ( 56,360,000 * 72.000 ) / 2.540 = 1,597,606,299 pixels on a resolution of 72.000 pixels per inch (one inch equals 2.540 centimetres). So, to break the record basically all you need is a page with a height of 1,597,606,300 pixels. :) Read more →