If you do any work with IE8 at all you are surely familiar with its various compatibility modes.  Basically the browser will flip into quirks mode or strict mode depending on the doctype and you can of course force the issue with <meta> tags or HTTP headers.  Now generally when people discuss these modes it tends to [...]

When trying to build an accessible Web site it is often a good idea to put in a link for screen readers to jump over repetitive navigation elements on page and hit the content of the page.  It might look something like
<div id=”skip”><a href=”#content”>Skip to content</a></div>
Next using CSS you would set #skip {display: none;} and normal users [...]

Linux
I notice that my system has /dev/shm mounted as tmpfs. Turns out you can write up to 4G (maybe more) of files to it like it were any other partition, and it’s basically a ramdisk that can also be partially written to swap. It doesn’t use 4G of RAM, it grows dynamically as you add [...]

A year ago I mentioned that cross origin Ajax requests were coming and then got backed out of the last version of Firefox Well they are back now and they do work in Firefox 3.5 IE 8 landed similiar functionality using something called an XDR (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd573303(VS.85).aspx) Of course the big question is still, is this [...]

Right now I am knee deep in HTML 5, CSS 3 and all related topics to support the new edition of HTML: The Complete Reference. Usually I don’t share too much about the sausage making that goes on during one of these massive efforts, but after hearing a few comments from students I [...]

Many users are quite concerned by the amount of tracking performed online so they dump their browser’s cache and cookies quite regularly. Effective privacy perserving strategy or not, all browsers thus have a commonly used setting to dump various browsing droppings like cookies, browser history, and cached files when the browser is closed. When looking [...]

A back water infrastructure service of the Internet for many years URL shorteners allow you to take a long nasty long URL like http://blog.pint.com/2009/03/31/a-few-observations-about-short-url-services into something like http://tinyurl.com/cc2o48 Try it you just bounce here.
While we use these shortening services in some Internet mediums because we must it is questionable the value of the keyboard character [...]

Javascript has been utilized in the browser for a few years now, but server-side Javascript seems to be something that’s talked about a lot but there still is no viable solution to date.  Right?
There are three real issues with server-side Javascript in general. These are the things I would be looking at before pronouncing that [...]

After weeks of development, PINT is proud to announce the launch of our company web site custom made for the iPhone! You may be asking yourself, “aren’t all PINT sites iPhone compatible?” The answer is absolutely! The difference here is that we’ve developed a site custom-tailored to the iPhone that offers advanced functionality and usability [...]

I am pleased to announce PINT has recently launched a version of our corporate web site custom tailored to the iPhone. Having watched this project play out from it’s inception, I can attest to the differences encountered when developing specifically for iPhone Safari, as opposed to coding in support of more traditional (although often quirkier) [...]