Invoke Google Chrome Frame When Available
Google recently changed the way you harness the power of Google Chrome Frame in Internet Explorer. Chrome Frame is the plugin which adds Google Chrome as a browser renderer inside Internet Explorer, giving you access to, among other things, HTML5.
Previously, you inserted a simple meta tag. Now you have to send the headers programmatically. [...]
A Temporary Way To Deal With Windows’ Awful @font-face Rendering
Windows smooths fonts, oh yes. In several different ways. Unfortunately, none of these font smoothing mechanisms properly round the edges of CSS fonts embedded using @font-face. This is most visible when using CSS fonts for body text, but it’s bad enough. So do we stop using CSS fonts for body text? No, we show CSS [...]
HTML5’s rel=”noreferrer”
Whenever you click a link, referrer information such as where you came from is sent along with you. In HTML5, you can disable this using HTML5’s rel=”noreferrer”. Interesting. What will Google Analytics do?
Wordpress QuickTip: Pagination
For some websites, Wordpress’ builtin pagination feature (<!–nextpage–>) is supremely useful. Storing here, as much for my own posterity as for yours, a few tricks to get it up and running.
Restore the “Nextpage” button in the Visual editor by adding the following to your functions.php:
/**
* Restore Nextpage Visual Editor button
*/
add_filter(’mce_buttons’,'nextpage’);
function nextpage($btns) {
$pos [...]
iConvert Converts Your PNGs To Favicons
Worth putting on your bookmark list, iConvert will let you upload a transparent 16×16 PNG file and convert it into a proper favicon.ico file ready spice up your sites bookmark icon. Just place it in the webroot of your webserver and voila. It hasn’t failed me yet.
Testing Browsers In 2009: Instant Screenshots
Browsershots has been around for a while, but I’ve always found it a hassle to work with. And so, Geotek Datentechnik’s NetRenderer is a welcome product. It’ll screenshot your website almost instantly. Works remarkably well.
Handle IE8: Use Chrome Frame If Available, Fallback To IE7 [Updated]
Internet Explorer 8 wasn’t a welcome surprise. While the new rendering engine was supposed to be more standards compliant, the CSS engine wasn’t updated similarly, so the net result was it couldn’t render advanced CSS layouts anyway, even if it tried to. The solution was to add a meta tag to tell IE8 to use [...]
It’s Just A Little Caching Trick [Update]
Friday pro-tip. If you’re a “View HTML Source” cowboy like me, you may have noticed odd, cruft-full CSS or JavaScript links like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css?ver=2009-10-04" />
While it would obviously be slimmer if you just wrote style.css as opposed to style.css?ver=2009-10-04, there’s a neat little trick to that tail cruft. See modern browsers have rather [...]
Zeldman Says: Web-Licensed Fonts From Font Bureau Soon
It only took calling Jeffrey Zeldman a font pirate, to find out this delicious slice of news about web fonts:
You will soon be able to purchase web-licensed fonts directly from Font Bureau’s online store. You can’t do that quite yet. I pulled some strings. Okay, I begged. And some Polaroids might have been involved.
Kidding aside, you [...]