I came across a situation recently where a JavaScript widget didn’t ‘work’ on the iPhone. It did technically work, but without knowing about two-fingered scrolling (and when you need to use it), it didn’t appear to work. So how do you differentiate the iPhone (and other touch based devices) from a regular browser?

A little post for those that run into the same problem I had with TinyMCE and blank instances not quite being blank. I created a little configuration to remove empty HTML tags.

I’ve just gotten back from a great day at the Stackoverflow Dev Day, I didn’t take my usual copious notes, but I thought a flavour of proceedings would be good to get down. For those who don’t know me, I have to add the caveat that I’m not a…

You may have noticed the W3C was asking for contributions for the running the validator. There is a way that you can support the W3c validation service – by not using it. The public version that is. If you use OSX, you can install it locally.

My journey to d.construct was a long one, I hadn’t even checked which talks were when, so I was very thankful for the schedule built into your name tag! I took quite a few notes for general use, but please to refer to the originals where possible:

Keynote:

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I was writing a little accessibility article for .net magazine about text-replacement techniques, including sIFR. I was blithely saying that “yea, don’t worry, it’s fine” with a couple of caveats. But, rather than rely on memory I did a quick test, and discovered something strange.

In a recent test with Internet Explorer’s conditional comments, some of the more complex operators didn’t seem to work. For example, trying to target IE 6 and 7 defensively, the ‘and’ operator didn’t work. However, there is another solution.

Recently a link to a Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) cheat sheet came across my radar, and I was curious what sort advice is given for SEO these days. I’m not an SEO expert, but I thought a short analysis of how SEO and accessibility overlap or conflict would be useful.

The recent (and quite significant) overhaul of Wordpress’ admin area is very good, streamlining your blogging and making previously diffiicult things quite simple. One of the new features is the ability to automatically create a gallery within a post of all the picture uploaded to that post. I wasn’t very happy with the code output for galleries, so I took it apart and tried to improve it.

Layouts are becoming an issue again. The (browser) landscape is changing, as are the fashion in layouts, but not really in unison. I can understand giving a greater weight towards design aspects, and maintaining the grid, however, I find the timing curious, as these changes seem likely to be obsolete soon.