23 March 2011
Why should we want to support users that, for whatever reason, have Javascript disabled? I had found it difficult to answer this question in a constructive way, whilst also being backed up by research. This post aims to give you some reasons why we should still be supporting users without Javascript.
3 March 2011
Note: I’m not American, but it feels weird writing ‘centre’ if you code in CSS all day.
I’ve come across a problem I need solving and Google is not being my friend. I need to center a button on the page without specifying its width, because the text inside is of various lengths. The following works how I want in Firefox, Safari, Opera and even IE6, 7 and 9 (thanks to Sarah for testing).
28 February 2011
For the first time in ages I was asked to code up some buttons that at first looked as though they could only be generated by using images. The buttons needed to allow for varying text lengths so my mind first went to the Sliding doors of CSS that I used to use regularly.
21 January 2011
The HTML 5 specification includes a web storage API for data storage in web clients. It means we can store large amounts of data, client-side, to read and write to as we like without causing the site to slow down (when compared to using cookies).