I’ve always been against Adobe Flash. It’s slow, CPU consuming, insecure, painful to work with and overly very user unfriendly. Finally my dislike for Flash is being met with by powerful companies who are all now rallying against Flash and pushing towards HTML 5.
Archive for the ‘HTML’ Category
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YouTube supports HTML 5 to rid Flash
YouTube has just launched an opt-in beta to support a HTML 5 instead of the flash player that we’re used to. If you’re like me you try to avoid using Flash where-ever possible, and HTML 5′s video support is a step closer to a Flash-free web.
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How to make a div stretch to 100% of the window height & fixing the background color or image not covering the entire window
I know, it’s massively long title, but I thought I’d fix too issues with 1 post as they both have the identical solution. The main one is when creating some sites recently they were fairly short designs and bizarrely the CSS background color didn’t fill the window. This was puzzling, but I did find a solution. The other issue is when you’re trying to make a div to stretch to fill a window, it doesn’t like to do it, the solution for this is the same as the other issue.
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HTML 5 is coming [video]
So unless you’ve had your head under a rock for the past year or so you’ll have heard about HTML 5. But what’s to be expected in HTML 5 and when can we start using it? Well, you could start using it today in theory, however the full HTML 5 spec isn’t quite finished meaning browsers haven’t rolled out all the features. So who’s on board and what exactly can you do?
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Finding & working with “the loop” in WordPress templates.
So you know HTML, but not PHP – you’re trying to follow WordPress tutorials, they refer to the infamous “loop”… But where is it, what is it, and how do you find it? I’m going to run through “the loop” what it does and how to find it in your WordPress theme.
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New version of gzip for Javascript & CSS now available
I’ve released version 1.1.1 of my gzip php script for Javascript and CSS which is a minor updates and adds a few handy new features. You can get the latest version of the script here. You can read the release notes here.
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Gzip compression script for javascript and CSS updated
Today I’ve updated my gzip compression for javascript and CSS script to fix a security flaw. If you’re using V1.0 I advise you update to V1.1 which is available here. You can read the release notes here.
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Small height divs in Internet Explorer
If you want to make a div of a height smaller then around 10px, often in Internet Explorer will not make the div any smaller than around 12px. This is a real pain if you want to use div’s to create lines and various other things. Thankfully I’m here to tell you how to get around this problem.
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Cross browser table cell spacing with both fixed & percentage width cells
Today I had a hard time trying to create a table which had some cells of a fixed width, then the others stretching to fill the rest of the page. The problem was I just could not get it to work properly in every browser. If I got it to work one way in one browser, another wouldn’t and vise versa. After messing around for a bit I found the solution, it’s kind of a forceful way to get all the browsers to do what we want, but sometimes the browsers force us to do it!
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Speed up your websites using gzip and merging files.
Many sites these days are using more and more Javascript and CSS which can quickly slow the websites loading speed. Gzip compression for your Javascript and CSS is not used in enough websites these days as many people still fear incompatibility with browsers. However this is no longer the case as all modern browsers are now compatible with it. There are heaps of ways to Gzip, none of which I could get to work on my web host, so I created my own which uses the zlib extension in php. I also included a few advantages to it such as merging of files which helps decrease the loading time even more.
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Aug 22, 2009
Zip files using PHP without the PHP zip function: PHP Zip Class
The search for a PHP class to zip files has taken me well over 2... -
Oct 20, 2008
Speed up your websites using gzip and merging files.
Many sites these days are using more and more Javascript and CSS which can quickly...