Category Archives: Web Design
The [Sorry] State of Web Design
Yes, Oliver there is a bug in Safari3. It’s a javascript issue, to be precise. And it’s annoying. I have a design relying on Inman Positioning. The javascript is supposed to execute at load time. Problem is, when it does execute, the CSS has not yet been applied to the columns, so it gets an […]
Was at the Flex show last night over at WCTC. It was very apparent I’ve had my head inside Rails lately. Kevin Hoyt, the Adobe demo guy, did his database access schtick (writing just a few lines of code and — hey, presto! — a fuctioning CRUD db screen appears) and while the rest of […]
The current issue of A List Apart has an article by Aaron Gustafson, one of those brave articles that is sure to cause a storm of un- and mis-informed comment. It’s a real attempt to solve a problem, and one that shows more than a little bravery. Eric Meyer’s reply (published side-by-side in a point/not-quite-counterpoint […]
I’ve created a new web design project as a giant learning experience. As a result, I’m making progress learning simultaneously a new language (Ruby) and a new framework (you guessed it, Rails). I like learning new programming languages; To be honest I’ve lost track of how many this makes, but it’s over 20 now. I […]
Just ran into an interesting quirk with Inman positioning. I was using it with Safari 3, and noticed the same bug in Firefox 2.0.0.11 while testing. I loaded the javascript file in the document head and when the document started to load,, apparently it loaded a document and triggered the script before the body had […]