Archive for March, 2008
Stuart Alan Signs And Designs
stuartalansigns.com
Stuartalansigns.com was developed in pure XHTML/CSS on a simple PHP backend. It also utilses some basic SEO techniques.
Unobtrusive JavaScript ‘lightbox’ style image galleries were employed to meet the clients need to add large numbers of photos in an elegant and well thought out manner.
jQuery.browser.version Doesn’t Recognise IE7 Anymore
Recently i’ve noticed that jQuery.browser.version seems to be returning 6 for most copies of IE7. This seems to be due to the fact that the user-agent string now contains the substring “MSIE 6.0″. So, thanks for that Microsoft.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; [...]
BBC iPlayer, The iPhone and Illegal State Aid
No one could have missed the fact that the BBC has launched a new service called iPlayer recently. They stuff it down our throats after every pointless episode of EastEnders.
Most people (normal people) would be surprised however to learn of the ongoing controversy which surrounds the beeb’s most recent squandering of our money.
jQuery “Access Keys” Plugin Beta 1
Today I completed the first Beta of an Access Keys jQuery Plugin. The basic premise is that it allows you to have access keys automatically assigned to a selection of anchors. Each corresponding anchor will be assigned an access key corresponding to the first available letter not assigned to another anchor of it’s innerHTML. The [...]
