IE6 sniffer using conditional comments

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 [...]

Quirks mode buried but not dead

Good old Quirks Mode. It’s like an undead being slumbering in a forgotten sarcophagus waiting for some unsuspecting designer to stumble upon it. A few weeks or so ago, I began a UI project that, over the years, was designed for Internet Explorer’s Quirks Mode rendering engine. I hadn’t worked on markup for Quirks Mode [...]

How to reduce FireBug’s memory usage

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 [...]

Jack in the box stole my bowl cut

Recently it was brought to my attention that a Jack in the Box advertising campaign included something suspiciously reminicent from my past. The campaign in question shows Jack with a giant, awesome, bowl hair cut. Well, I used to have a giant bowl haircut just like Jack’s! Also, my brother just recently posted a picture [...]