YouTube has just launched an opt-in beta to support a HTML 5 instead of the flash player that we’re used to. If you’re like me you try to avoid using Flash where-ever possible, and HTML 5’s video support is a step closer to a Flash-free web.
Posted by Jason Stockton | Posted in Javascript | Posted on 21-01-2010
Tags: jQuery
In case you haven’t run around the web recently you may or may not have noticed jQuery 1.4 has just hit the web. The new release has a large list of improvements on features, speed increases as well as is highly backwards compatible which means most people can upgrade without any real hassles.
Like most people, you probably have many blogs you check out frequently. A new site (Web Resauce) aggregates around 100 web design + development blogs (including this one) into one location so you can scan just 1 site for articles that interest you. Web Resauce allows you to either view the article on the bloggers site or view it on Web Resauce with it’s readability focused design.
I know, it’s massively long title, but I thought I’d fix too issues with 1 post as they both have the identical solution. The main one is when creating some sites recently they were fairly short designs and bizarrely the CSS background color didn’t fill the window. This was puzzling, but I did find a solution. The other issue is when you’re trying to make a div to stretch to fill a window, it doesn’t like to do it, the solution for this is the same as the other issue.
Posted by Jason Stockton | Posted in Browsers | Posted on 28-10-2009
Tags: Google Chrome, Mac
I managed to get my hands on the long awaited alpha version of Google Chrome for Mac last week and have now taken it for a serious test drive. Although the browser is far from being ready for Beta, it is looking like it will hurt Safari and Firefox by combining the best features of each of them.
Posted by Jason Stockton | Posted in Marketing, Tips | Posted on 16-10-2009
Tags: FOWA, Small Business Hub
Those who are familiar with me will know I’m very passionate about marketing. It is the most important part of any web application or business. The reason I say this is because even if you have the worst web application in the world, providing you have the right marketing you can be making great money. Obviously as a developer you want to make your web application better than everyone else’s – which is great! But if you don’t market it properly and put in the effort to market it properly you’re highly unlikely to make any money.
Posted by Jason Stockton | Posted in HTML, News, Resources | Posted on 16-10-2009
Tags: FOWA, HTML 5
So unless you’ve had your head under a rock for the past year or so you’ll have heard about HTML 5. But what’s to be expected in HTML 5 and when can we start using it? Well, you could start using it today in theory, however the full HTML 5 spec isn’t quite finished meaning browsers haven’t rolled out all the features. So who’s on board and what exactly can you do?
When it comes to the internet, a lot has changed in 10 years. Computers can handle a lot more processors, much more graphic detail and the speed is significant faster. This naturally has seen the web evolve, websites become more advanced and it’s users more technically savvy. Rewind 10 years ago when not many site used CSS, Javascript or even PHP, what was the web like? Lets go back, way back to 1999! Y2K anyone?
Posted by Jason Stockton | Posted in Resources, Software, Tips | Posted on 17-09-2009
Tags: coda, Mac
If you’re a web developer on Mac I encourage you to get your hands on Coda by Panic. It can handle just about all of your development needs and make coding much faster. If you’ve already got it then brilliant! I’m going to run through 10 tips to get the most out of Coda, some you may know, some you may not. It’s all part of the fun! Let’s see why Coda leave it’s competitors in the dark.
This one is pretty obvious to most CSS developers but it’s not actually used that widely on a lot of websites. It is really easy to apply multiple CSS classes to an element allowing you to mix and match various classes on elements. One instance I find it handy is when I have elements that require the same CSS as another element but simple things like the background color is different. Adding a second class to the element means I don’t need to re-write the class with an alternate color, I can just create an additional class to set the background color.