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July 28th, 2008

dotdorset

Just a quick post about dotdorset. dotdorset is a group like minded web types from Dorset. We meet up a couple of times a month. At the moment we do one meet in a pub and one meet are Markngs where he organises a BBQ. There are various ways of keeping track of what's going with a presence on twitter and events are ...

October 19th, 2006

Web Development vs Cleaning Products

Is it me or are there a number a web development terms that are the same as some cleaning products. Here are the ones I have come across so far: SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol - I think the connection with cleaning is obvious! AJAX - household cleaners - not sure it is still sold as AJAX in the UK though. Flash - A recent new advertising campaign for Flash ...

August 18th, 2006

A Simple in-swf debugger

When developing a Flash app for the web sometimes it can be painful seeing what's going on as you can't trace things in the browser - not that I'm aware of anyway. If you use FireBug in FireFox when you are developing you can set up a function in javascript that allows you to see what you a tracing using this same method but outputting it to the javascript debugger ...

July 7th, 2006

From XHTML/CSS to WordPress

I wish I'd seen this before I redesigned and rebuilt this blog. Which by the way might still be teething a bit. At some point I will detail the various things I have done in more detail. I should include a link to the icons I used. I would like to do my own but these days I never have time to play with ...

June 30th, 2006

Turning off dotted lines in Firefox

Came across a small problem in Firefox last week. I had a list and was using 'text-indent: -5000px' in the css to do some image replacement. It's a bit weird because it made the list element quite wide so when you clicked the dotted lines that show where are clicking seemed to stretch all the way across the page. Anyway to fix it first of all I found Fixing the Fox ...

June 30th, 2006

DTI website

Again this is something I saw on the WaSP site. In the past I did some work on some of the DFES sites and they had standards that we had to work to and we did mainly because it was something I was interested in and it was something that was becoming a bigger issue. The work I did was about two years ago. I remember they were going ...

June 30th, 2006

PAS78 download for free!

A mentioned this document a couple of months ago and mentioned that it cost some money to have a look at it. Well now it is available for free from the DRC web site. I found the link on Web Standards Project site. I have had a quick browse of it so far but I think it is something I will be browsing now and again to get a feel ...

May 3rd, 2006

Whitespace in Firefox

I have been busy doing stuff with the DOM at work. One thing that continually bugs me is that Firefox seems to find a lot of whitespace and called them textnodes. Obviously when you use firstChild, lastChild, nextSibling or previousSibling and you think that what you are getting from your script should be a div or something other than a textnode this can cause some problems. Internet Explorer seems to ...

April 19th, 2006

External Interface and local connections

External interface is a class in Flash that allows the swf to talk to javascript and vice versa. There a two basic methods: call - you can call a javascript function from the swf addCallback - you can call a actionscript function from javascript So to get it to work first of all you need to import the External Interface class: import flash.external.ExternalInterface; Then you need add your calls and callbacks. For a callback: ExternalInterface.addCallback("actionScriptFunc", this, ...

April 19th, 2006

Bite Size Standards

Bite Size Standards - again another site a bit like A List Apart although more blog like. It looks a bit like an older version A List Apart from perhaps a couple of years ago - anyway I haven't really looked at it properly yet but it looks promising!