I recently uploaded a very basic business card style website to www.erikphipps.com (which I forgot I even owned!). The idea came to me when a co-worker sent me a link to a one page website for one of the people behind Vimeo (and other websites). I did some research and found a whole bunch of [...]
I ran into the dreaded IE7/IE6 z-index rendering bug today. I knew it was going to show its ugly head once I began troubleshooting the UI component I was working on, but little did I expect it to slide itself behind nearly every element it was supposed to cover! I contemplated a jQuery solution but [...]
When building HTML/CSS pages or components, I usually follow specific steps in order to keep my code clean and concise. The trick is to start with the base foundation and then slowly drill your way down to the very smallest inline element. These steps aren’t set in stone of course, and I often mix things [...]
I needed a fail-proof Internet Explorer 6 JavaScript sniffer and it seemed like everything I Googled warned of possible scenarios where it could possibly not work. Then It struck me that since I only needed to detect one version of Internet Explorer I could make a very simple script using Internet Explorer’s conditional comments.
I know [...]
I love FireBug but one day it became a memory behemoth! It was consuming over 800k every hour or so of work. I did a little poking around and found that I had inadvertently set network monitoring, console logging and JavaScript debugging to be on by default. After a little digging, I found the tip [...]
Here’s a tip to reduce clutter on a page with lots of repeating links, icons and/or elements. Say you have a list of search results on your website and each result has many action icons and links. It isn’t necessary to have to links and icons visible at all times. The non-vital content can be [...]
