Archive for the 'Web Development' Category

YUI 3 PR1 Configurator

September 11th, 2008

Well played, Yahoo. Well played.
I’ve been holding off on a deep dive of YUI 3, but with Hack Day 2008 and a chance to corner various YUI folks this week, I figured it was a good time to load up with intelligent questions.
Right off, I’m very impressed with the configurator. It lets you cherry-pick the […]

Hack Day Commeth

September 9th, 2008

Wow, time has been flying by at my new gig. Hopefully I’m not too late to get in for Hack Day, cause it’s a hell of a lot of fun. I haven’t been rubbing elbows with my Yahoo friends in forever, so hopefully a few familiar faces will be there. It’s September 12-13 at the […]

iPhone SOS: a different sort of “code”

May 31st, 2008

I was looking some months back at the “Hot” iPhone Web apps, and was amused to find the “iPhone Flashlight” and, later, the various strobe lights and other things which basically set the background color from #000 to #FFF. Not to be outdone, I made the iPhone SOS app one night which used the same […]

The “Wii News Channel” and other out-of-browser experiences

May 31st, 2008

I haven’t really played with the “Wii” much since we got it last year, and only recently enabled the built-in wifi, so this sweet news viewer has been lurking in my living room for quite a while.
Spin the globe and see news story pages pile up on cities where they happen. Zoom in, and the […]

The boat anchor known as IE6

March 24th, 2008

IE8 is looming on the horizon for release into the wild later this year. It looks promising. According to what I’ve seen so far, it’ll be largely compliant with HTML 5 and the latest and/or greatest CSS specs from W3C. Awesome!

And yet… 30-40% of the installed Windows base out there seem to still have IE6, […]