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.

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/

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.

@font-face is definitely a huge string to the CSS author's bow, in fact, it's like a freekin' flamin' arrow, but watch out, Safari isn't very nice to slow connections.

I've built a number of different mini-apps for Twitter, and run in to various API limitations that I've not been happy with (equally, Twitter did add the favourite count and fix the auth issue on favs). Twitter avatars is one of those annoyances. If you've built an app that caches a Twitter user's avatar, and [...]