Supersonic Feet

... or how IE6 yet again drove me close the point of insanity. IE6 is notoriously useless when it comes to transparent PNG images, with Microsoft inexplicably never having added support for the file format in all these years. As such, web developers who want to get fancy with their transparency (hey, that rhymes!) have to ...

At Gottabet we're looking for a 'web application designer' to join the team. The job entails a range of web dev, from helping design various sections/features of the website to implementing them in HTML and CSS. There's a full job spec on the website, so if you're a developer who's big on web standards looking for ...

Just spotted (via Simon Willison's blog) that Yahoo! has released an extension for Firebug, called YSlow. The extension adds more performance data to Firebug, grading various speed issues A-F like a school exam. It seems rather cool on a brief test, though one bit did immediately stand out as potentially bad advice: YSlow suggests you should ...

The most useful developer tool for Firefox has just hit it's first version 1.0 beta and has added some great new features. Firebug gives you all kinds of javascript and CSS debugging tools that help you track down where errors are coming from. For example, you can inspect a single HTML element and see the CSS ...

My previous post mentioned FireBug and how handy it is in tracking/debugging AJAX requests and code. This was particularly important as the problem I'm having is with Sortable lists (in tree form) and child elements not being serialized when they're added via AJAX. To explain a bit further, I'm using the technique to list the pages ...