A short and personal history of building web pages.

TL;DR This is my journey, shared so you can learn from the mistakes I’ve made, from HTML vomit to clean(er) responsive and progressive web pages, built on frameworks of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript5. Done in the hope that you aren’t making then same mistakes. Continue reading A short and personal history of building web pages.

Doing Conditional Comments for your Internet Explorer css fixes better, with HTML top tag classes

Now browser sniffing is basically a bad thing but there is still a need to fix / hack issues on older browsers, in particular Internet Explorer. Okay, almost entirely in Internet Explorer. IE6 may be -mostly- dead, but IE8 will Continue reading Doing Conditional Comments for your Internet Explorer css fixes better, with HTML top tag classes

Adding a “loading” image to (just about) any form on submit, with jQquery

under the category of the simplest thing that will actual work, I wanted to have one of those nice animate swilling icons running after the user hit the submit button so they knew that something was really happening. The core Continue reading Adding a “loading” image to (just about) any form on submit, with jQquery