The state of offline detection in desktop browsers is broken and it needs to fixed or at least get better, but I can't see this happening unless we push against the browser vendors to fix this. Currently, as of April 2011, offline and online events are broken, as is the navigator.onLine property. The only exception appears [...]

I've written my fair share of single file applications. All the JavaScript and CSS are inline, and if I'm feeling particularly ninja, I'll base64 encode the images, and make them inline too. To make the whole thing completely available offline is insanely easy, and reusable to boot.

This week I had the pleasure of attending Seb Lee-Delisle's Creative HTML5 and JavaScript workshop and even as someone who classes themselves as an expert JavaScripter (I hope!), I still learnt tons.

I recently had to work on a project for iOS that required that sound play on particular actions being performed. The problem is that iOS and HTML5 has been seriously oversold by Apple and the devices are pretty poor in comparison to the desktop. Audio and video are particularly poor, so to solve my problem [...]

A polyfill, or polyfiller, is a piece of code (or plugin) that provides the technology that you, the developer, expect the browser to provide natively. Flattening the API landscape if you will.

Google Calendar released a new favicon which prompted a few mentions from friends on Twitter. The first, probably more important was from Cennydd: New Google Calendar icon most un-Googley. I like it. Then Danny pitched in with: I see Google Calendar has a new icon. They could use the current date rather than [...]

I've been looking for a small hosting provider that I could run node.js on to test out some WebSocket experiments, and this is my account so that you also can have a play.