First of all I wanted to make the title of this post "HTML5 and Flash", but I know it's going to bait more readers if I say versus. I should state for the record that for the foreseeable future I think Flash has a valid place on the web, and I don't personally see it [...]

Users of Twitter created the idiom "RT @suchnsuch said sumfink", and as with @ replies, RT's have been rolled in to Twitter's architecture. Now we have, what I think should be called, the native retweet. It was turned on for early users and more of the "twittersphere" is getting the feature now. Certainly the [...]

If you've not noticed already the search in Twitter has been downgraded to 7 days history. In fact, that changed some time ago. I've had the good fortune to be able to ask Twitter employees directly about the history via attending Devnest and I've been assured the history is being kept. That doesn't solve [...]

This last week has been a huge social/talky/knowledge festival for me. It comprised of dConstruct 2009 and my first attendance at any barcamp: Barcamp Brighton 4.

In finding that the legend element simply doesn't work inside both details and figure, myself and others been keen to find a solution.

The more I test HTML 5 and the more I play around in the DOM, the more I find odd situations that will trigger particular bugs. The one result I'm seeing is what I'm now referring to as a vomit bug.

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.