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 [...]

I've recently been doing more and more cutting from mocks to HTML & CSS and one particular job required me to work to a specific grid layout. In working to these grid layouts, I've created a couple of tools to make generating and working with the grids a little easier.

Bookmarklets are, IMHO, being used for more and more funky functions. I really like the Facebook and Tumblr bookmarklets that scoop out information about the type of content you want to post and then sends them off to the respective sites. John Gruber recently reposted his JavaScript Bookmarklet Builder - which is useful, but if you're planning [...]

Although this is should be obvious, since the iPod Touch comes with Safari, I've found to my pleasure: you can run bookmarklets through Safari (mobile).

I've got a handy little bookmarklet that I use to check whether any variables have slipped out in the to global namespace (i.e. on to the window object). Globals Note that all global variables (including functions) that have been added by your page, will be written to via console.log. The bookmarklet will also prompt to filter out globals, [...]

Cameron Moll gave a presentation at dConstruct 2007. At one point during the presentation, he demonstrated how he checked that the typography still held the weight on the National Gazette front page redesign (pg. 42). Since they're fun nuggets of code, I've written a simple bookmarklet that strips colour, images and background decoration from the page, leaving [...]

As a web developer, I'm constantly using Firebug, but when it comes to testing in IE it's a nightmare if there's any bugs. Firebug does provide a 'lite' version, but you have to have in it in every page you want to debug. Well, not anymore.