Lately I decided I was going to recreate the interactive features of the details element using JavaScript (apparently the same day as fellow Brightonian Jeremy Keith). However I ran in to some very serious issues with the tag combined with the legend element, so serious, in it's current state, it's unusable.

I've been using Twitpic either via TwitterFon on my iPhone or Tweetie from my desktop for Twitter, but one thing struck me last night: Twitpic doesn't allow me to get my content back out. So here's my fix: http://twitpicapi.appspot.com/

I wanted to let you know, my dear reader, what I've been up to lately, but more over that I'm going to start cross posting my other articles to this blog.

Sometimes I find myself using the same event handler for more than one event on an element. Typically I just put the function in the global name space (or perhaps privately within the scope of the ready function depending on how the mood takes me), and then I'll refer to the function twice. But [...]

A little while ago I was involved in a conversation with someone about being able to have a button on your computer to trigger a rimshot noise, or a 'wah-wah-wahhh' (yes, of course I was in a pub). I pondered this for a few minutes, thinking it could be done using a bookmarklet and an overkill [...]

We all know Google engineers are working away a stuff that's so amazing they have to wait a couple of years before releasing it otherwise it'll blow our minds up (Gmail, maps, etc). That said, they've released functionality tucked away inside the search results page that I never knew existed. Full accessibility support.