As you can see I’m not one for short posts, but sometimes a great article needs to be pimped. Smashing Magazine has lots of those and whilst I’m mostly a Web Developer and not a Web Designer (I do have an iPhone so there may be hope for me) it’s good to keep an eye on the current design trends for web applications. Smashing, super, great, well not so great with IE6. Their current article “CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8” is a change from the normal rant at Microsoft fare, but aims at understanding all the differences that occur in the Microsoft browser segment of the market...

To celebrate the upgrading of the JavaScript API to 1.5 I decided to have a little play with adding a where are you from page to the site (you can get too it from the page link above). This is a little routine to take your IP address and geo-locate where you are. It’s a very simple application in the style of Al Pascual’s Map Stats Silverlight application that you can get here. In fact it’s almost the same, except it works with Dojo uses a different IP geolocator from IPInfoDB as the one used by Al didn’t know places like New Zealand existed. It was an interesting application to write, not...

As you can see I had this idea of hosting my own blog. In case you wondered your here reading it. Now I thought that would be a simple thing to do just put a site onto the internet and eventually the magic that is the Google-bot or the Bing-bot (do we call it that?) would one day swoop down and make me part of the internet (I firmly believe, albeit slightly misguided that if your on a public site and not in the index then your not actually on the internet). Now I suppose before I go into my failings as a web developer I feel  that I need to justify myself. An explanation. I’m a fairly seasoned web...

When developing any web based application is pays to know exactly what your browser can do. If your developing an internal application you can make sure you maximise the website to what the browser can  support, this is Nirvana (provided the internal browser isn’t IE6, which in this case is usually is) just make sure your aware of any upgrades to the browser on the network and test early! If your working in the more common heterogeneous environment that is more common on public facing sites then understanding which browsers your going to have to support for your application is fundamental as this...