January 2008 Blog Posts

Use Missing W3C CSS Syntax in IE 5, 6 or 7

I don't do much web development, but when I do I'm often amazed that Internet Explorer still seems to disregard some elements of the CSS standards as outlined by the W3C. To address this shortcoming, Dean Edwards has written a small, optimised Javascript library to make IE versions 5, 6 or 7 "behave like a standards-compliant browser". It makes IE understand various things like: pseudo classes parent > child adjacent + sibling attribute[value] - cool! max-height, max-width the "peekaboo bug" and lots more... Check out Dean's test page if you use IE but long for more. Or have all the developers that...

Faaacebook. Faaaaacebook.

Wow, Facebook is getting some press - and not all good (warning: link-happy post ahead). First, for kicking Scoble off, which split into multiple issues: Scoble breaking the terms of service and getting the appropriate response, Plaxo not testing their scripts, and a broader "Who owns your data? Not you!" which DownloadSquad hit the nail on the head with: What's really at issue here is, who owns all this crazy social data you're constantly creating? Here's a tip; it's not you. All those clickwrap agreements -- or EULAs, also known as the Terms of Service document you never read -- say that...

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