Got an email with videos of two odd contraptions. I have no idea what these things are, but I want one.

After a rather interesting discussion on how to obfuscate emails on the frontend – me pointing out that most techniques are rather inaccessible and make spam the problem of the visitor – I came up with the following idea:

What if you set up your email links by linking to a page:

The PHP page then checks the referrer page and compares it with its own host IP, gets the email from a database or other mean of storage and sends back a ‘mailto:’ header:

header('Location:mailto:'.$email);


Wouldn’t that be a quite safe solution for the problem?

• Note: Of course a web form is the best option as it does not need an email client tool.

Introduction to Browser-Specific CSS Hacks

While being on the right track, I consider this article more confusing than helping. As pointed out in the comments, there are some typos and forgotten facts. It could be sloppy editing though.

I am currently working on a quite similar article for devarticles, however I will not advertise CSS hacks as a way to target different browsers, but the child selector as a way to progressively enhance a CSS layout.

IMHO it is time to stop thinking about browsers as our audience, but users.

Even though I haven’t come around to creating my template yet, I think it is time to start the blog, after all it is so much easier to design it when content is already available.