I thought I had done well and created an easy to use, dynamic gallery with DOM and CSS. What it does is show pictures when you click them in the page instead of doing a reload. It also shows a “loading image” message. All feedback I got was positive and I was happy to have provided something slick and useful. Alas, I found out that it is not all like that. (more…)

I hate using CSS hacks and filters. I strongly believe it is not my job to cover up the mistakes of browser vendors, and I hate relying on things I cannot test myself. As I also cannot be bothered to hunt the web for every new hack and workaround I considered buying this title to put it on my desk and get it over with. (more…)

I ordered it even before it came out, but as I just got stuck in writing a part of my own chapter in an upcoming book, I finally opened Stuart Langridges DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM published by Sitepoint. (more…)

A lot of email noise is being created on mailing lists and forums plainly because new developers are not sure about where what web technology ends and where the other begins. “Can I style the Icon of the page via CSS?”, “How do I send a form via HTML” or “Can I check in JavaScript if a folder has network sharing enabled” are just some recent examples. (more…)

Last month was also the first one to break the 1 million hits barrier on the whole server (blog, icant.co.uk and onlinetools.org.

Again, a huge thank you to NWU for sponsoring my server space. This would cost me a bundle :-)