In the middle of writing a blog post about generating placeholder text (think lipsum..coming soon) I started wondering why there is no HTML-native way to load arbitrary content into an element. API's and RESTful services are all over the web these days, but we continue to have…
On the 19th March I'm going to be attending "State of the Browser [http://browser.londonwebstandards.org/]". It's an event hosted by the London Web Standards [http://www.londonwebstandards.org/] group for "web creators" to get the low down on up-and-coming features…
... [/cc] You can see an example of Processing JS done this way by viewing the full source of the basic demo [ http://processingjs.org/source/basic-example/processingjs_basic-example.html] on the Processing JS homepage. This works really well, except for the drawback of having all your Processing code inline on…
Over the weekend I updated my blog to Wordpress 2.8 [http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-28/]. It's been a relatively smooth process complete screw-up (see my comment at the bottom) although I lost my archive and recent post widgets as I had hacked them to be…
There has been much talk in the web design and development community of late regarding the demise of Internet Explorer 6. Most web developers and designers have a special place in their hearts for their hatred of IE6, but the strength of their loathing varies from the occasional moaning [http:…