Tag Archives: web development

Initial experiments with the iPad.

September 12 10

I bought an iPad the other night because, lately, I’ve been having a lot of ideas for web applications or games or things that either require multitouch or make the most sense when thought of as multitouch applications. I’ve spent a lot of today playing around with the new Javascript multitouch events, and already I [...]

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Chatterböxen updates, part the second

May 1 10

Okay so as of now I feel like I’m mostly done. I wanna deploy it to the staging area on dangerouscuteness.com and do some live testing with real users, but really it’s very solid right now and works really well. So let’s recap here…. The new Chatterboxen works great in Chrome and Firefox. I haven’t [...]

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Just then, something very mysterious happened.

September 12 09

Earlier today I was working on a website at work that had severe performance issues in Internet Explorer. The site has a healthy amount of Javascript, a significant portion of which was actually written to overcome various bizarre shortcomings of IE6. For example, IE6 doesn’t support the “:hover” pseudoclass for any element that isn’t a [...]

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Not as Many IE Woes?

March 9 09

Mattie had a look at my web app I’ve been working on in his virtual machine and it ran just fine. Now, on the whole, this is very good news, because it means I don’t have to be as concerned about IE6 users. At the same time, though, it also means that I’ve basically wasted [...]

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