Complying With The EU Cookie Law
The cookie law is a new EU privacy legislation that requires websites to provide clear and comprehensive information about the cookies being stored; and obtain consent from visitors in order to store or retrieve any information about the user.
Thoughts on Implementing Responsive Design
design" is the latest buzzword in a long series of web buzzwords which has featured "XML", "Web 2.0" and "HTML5" to name a few; but it's one that shouldn't be dismissed.
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CSS Regions
Currently if you have a page where content is separated by a drastic change in layout you will need to include part of your content inside one element, and the other part inside another element. If you're using a CMS, this means you need to have two content fields for what is essentially related content. CSS Columns already offers functionality to separate content in to columns but CSS Regions provide greater control and flexibility of content on your page by allowing content to flow through the page structure, whatever that structure is.
Hands on with Firefox’s Developer Tools
Since Firefox 4 last March, Mozilla have begun to include their own developer tools built in to the Firefox browser. Whilst Firebug still remains available as a plugin and is still supported by Mozilla, the browser vendor identified the need to include built-in developer tools – possibly so it has more control over future features and targets of developer tools within Firefox.
My JS1k 2012 Entry
This year I decided to enter the JS1k competition for the first time. The idea behind JS1k is to produce a cool JavaScript application in under 1kb (1024bytes) of code. I had not done any JavaScript golfing before, so I thought it would be a nice little challenge for myself. I didn't realise at the time quite how addictive or time-consuming JavaScript golfing was going to be!
CSS3 Backgrounds of the Future
Whilst we've been busy supporting older versions of Internet Explorer, a few new CSS features for backgrounds have sprung out of the woodwork and in to our browsers.
- `background-size`
- `background-clip`
- and `background-origin`
These features have been hiding behind their more popular gradient background color cousins; but are worth making a note of, especially if you're creating sites for mobile phones and recent browsers; and the best news is that they are completely prefix-free!
Modernizr Prefixed
I wanted to write up my notes on the jQuery UK Conference as I had an amazing time. Apologies to anybody who follows me on Twitter who didn't want to know about the conference, you were probably spammed a bit. But shame on you for not wanting to know!! This isn't a concise write-up of everything that happened, but is more what I took from the conference (what I learnt/found relevant to me .etc) Yesterday I travelled to Oxford to attend the jQuery UK conference, which the team at White October carefully crafted together. The snow threatened to stop me, but thankfully calmed down by the morning. So a quick hop, skip and jump on to a train and coach; and I found myself in Oxford at the Saïd Business School.
jQuery UK 2012 Conference
I wanted to write up my notes on the jQuery UK Conference as I had an amazing time. Apologies to anybody who follows me on Twitter who didn't want to know about the conference, you were probably spammed a bit. But shame on you for not wanting to know!! This isn't a concise write-up of everything that happened, but is more what I took from the conference (what I learnt/found relevant to me .etc) Yesterday I travelled to Oxford to attend the jQuery UK conference, which the team at White October carefully crafted together. The snow threatened to stop me, but thankfully calmed down by the morning. So a quick hop, skip and jump on to a train and coach; and I found myself in Oxford at the Saïd Business School.
Keeping It Real Simple
Last week I had the opportunity to go on a presentation skills course, and one of the tasks we were set was to explain one aspect of our job role to a group of people who had no experience in our field using the LIONS approach using zero jargon.
Impress at Presentations with Impress.js
The other day I mentioned on Twitter that I was playing around with Bartek Szopka's Impress.js library to write a presentation and it seemed to gather some interest. I then gave the presentation, and that gathered some more interest; so I thought I would write a short blog post about how to use Impress.js.
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