Shortcodes, include CSS and JS only on the correct blog pages

Not too long ago I wanted to add a new plugin to my blog. During various tests I noticed something quite shocking: at least one of the plugins insisted on loading it’s CSS and jquery on every page of my blog. A little more testing showed me that many plugins do the same. (more…)

My favorite Firefox Add-ons

This is about the Firefox Add-ons I use. This really is a complete list, I like to keep my browser lean. I’m fully aware that most people will miss things like Adblock, Pixel perfect and greasemonkey, but I don’t use them. (more…)

About the nonsense of blocking and annoying IE6 users

I know why most people who do web design, JS coding etc. loathe Internet Explorer 6. I hate having to fix stuff for any IE at all, the web would be a better place if that piece of software just died. I welcome efforts to decrease the market share of IE6, I support nagging warnings for IE6 visitors. But what’s with these nonsensical ideas of making websites look worse in it or blocking it? (more…)

About the CSS3 border radius property

So I have decided to use the CSS3 border-radius property on some sites. They are personal projects so I don’t care if they look a little worse on IE. After a few tweakings I’ve ended up with using things like this: (more…)

Track clicks with mootools

Why would I want to track clicks you may ask. Well, for me it’s about usability and user flow optimization. If I do some ajax/dynamic stuff on a page, I want to see what the users are doing. As they leave no visible traces in the logs, I need to add some. (more…)

Mooified focus onload but keep backspace intact

You may have heard about Harmen Janssen’s technique to focus input fields on pageload and keep the backspace button’s history back function intact. I wanted to play with it any my first step was to mooify his ideas. (more…)

Help! My mootools script doesn’t work in IE!

Today I went through the pain of installing Windows XP. On QEMU. I wanted to do some JavaScript debugging for mootools. It turned out that IE was just a little picky about list formatting. (more…)

HTML forms and onclick/onfocus

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When you use HTML forms it is often desirable to pre-fill some input fields. Your idea could be that you want to give your visitors some clue to what they’re supposed to fill in. (more…)