One of the things that gets me excited about the new features of browsers is the “HTML5” Web Storage module. I like it mostly because of its simplicity. The Web Storage idea is to simplify storing of information for the user. I always hated using cookies because of all the domain issues. It was also […]

Lately I find more and more people in comments fighting for the need for “view-source” in our web products and claiming it to be a “vital part of the open web” and a “great way of learning for new developers”. This ails me as it is in my point of view a very outdated idea […]

As you might know, an Event Apart in association with Microsoft are currently running a competition asking developers what they can do in under 10KB and I thought I have a shot at that. So here’s my submission: an interface to get information about any country on this planet in under 5K: I got the […]

If you’ve been on Twitter this morning you’ll have witnessed a bit of a discussion between Remy Sharp and me about his web site http://doesvalidationmatter.com/ which initially just said “no”. I didn’t agree with such a sweeping statement and I still don’t – if you make a statement like that then you need to quantify […]

Seems like the whole of Europe is currently up in arms against Google streetview showing their houses (let’s not even start with the sniffed wireless points and their data) and as friends in Google tell me there are queues in the Google Germany office where people request their houses to be removed. The reason is […]