realizations on life, the web, and everything

I’m currently building a site for a dream client—one whose website user base is built of tech-oriented people, who has almost no Internet Explorer 6 in his stats, and who groks, and even encourages, progressive enhancement. I’m using lots of HTML5 and CSS3 goodness on the site and it’s great fun! But in certain areas, [...]

Yesterday I received a request to speak at an upcoming London Youth Conference. Outside the slightly broken English, it wasn’t unlike other speaking requests. It was written to me by a Reverend Mike Gabriel. He stated where he found my name (through another speaking gig). He promised a contract on request as well as travel [...]

Today, I was “unfixing” a footer on a client’s site. One that, last year when we coded the website, they wanted fixed to the bottom of the browser viewport. But with the arrival of iDevices who “don’t do fixed positioning,” this footer placement is now being rethought. (As an aside, this makes me sad because just as [...]

A note for those at my HTML5 talk at #awdg today. I realized after I turning Skype off that I neglected to mention something important. Remember our discussion of ARIA roles? Perhaps some of you were thinking, “I don’t really care about accessibility—so what?”. Well, there’s another reason to use them. It has to do with styling [...]