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Safari’s problem with @font-face

@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.

Twivatar, a Twitter avatar API

Domain dead; native API available Due to a number of factors, twivatar.org is no longer active (the domain was in fact doomed) – however Twitter stepped up, and now there’s an API to get the avatar directly from them: http://twitter.com/api/users/profile_image/rem – so no longer any need for twivatar anyway. I’ve built a number of different [...]

HTML5 spell death to Flash?

The web community has gone loopy over Google announcing they’re supporting HTML5 in a big way, particularly and almost specifically because of the YouTube to demo using the video tag (I’ll add: rightly so). However, if you search Twitter for #html5 and you’ll see a that half of the comments see the HTML5 demo as [...]

Full Frontal JavaScript Conference

Today the Full Frontal JavaScript conference site goes live: full-frontal.org. It’s one day JavaScript conference hosted in Brighton, UK in the World’s first purpose built cinema: The Duke of York’s. I specifically wanted to provide a conference that was affordable, and not up in the reaches of £300-400, which is why the tickets are set [...]

html5 and Firefox2

If you’re using html5 for your site, and care about what the 3% of Firefox 2 users experience, then this should help you. For me it wasn’t so much the 3%, it was that my pages work perfectly in IE6, but are a complete mess in Firefox 2, and I just couldn’t live with that. [...]

The Future of JavaScript Libraries

Libraries have been a huge contributor to the surge in popularity of JavaScript in the last few years. JavaScript developers have had the cumbersome tasks lifted and have been able to get back to business in developing interesting solutions to interesting problems. I’ve been thinking about the next steps for JavaScript libraries, and I really [...]

JS Bin for Collaborative JavaScript Debugging

The weekend before last I blitzed through an idea I had on the shelf for about 6 months and put it live under the name JS Bin.