Since HTML5 is getting more attention by way of marking up our new pages, and the only way to get IE to acknowledge the new elements, such as <article>, is to use the HTML5 shiv, I’ve quickly put together a mini script that enables all the new elements.

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.

As developers we know it’s useful to read the query string (everything after the ‘?’ in the URL) to allow for customisations. However, I didn’t think I could read the query string in the script tag from within the JavaScript – until now.

In the pursuit of an idea I had recently, one tiny feature of the web site would be to detect whether the user had X font installed. I’ve looked at flash solutions, since a SWF had access to enumerate the fonts, but ultimately if it could be done without flash, it would/should be faster and [...]

Given that recently Twitter has been going up and down like a yo-yo (and I’m sure they’re working on it), I’ve upgraded the twitter script to support timeouts. Twitter have also messed with the API…

Adobe hit London yesterday with their on AIR tour and I had a seat. I’d been initially interested in AIR last year when I realised it was be a good entry point to developing a desktop app for the Mac (I’ve dabbled in Objective-C – but I can’t get my head around the square brackets!) [...]

In building the jQuery API browser, since the source of the API comes from the wiki pages over at docs.jquery.com, I had to handle some wiki parsing and convert it to HTML. However, the more I browsed the API, the more I realised there were aspects of wiki parsing I had missed. So I built [...]