Update: now works with links with rel=”external nofollow” etc too! I’ve recently switched back to Safari as my main browser because good ol’ Firefox kept crashing on me, and I must say that it’s been a smooth experience so far. Safari is a great browser, of course, and 3.1 is very fast as well. One [...]
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CSS Image Replacement, what’s up Matt?
So I’m a big fan of CSS image replacement, for several reasons, most importantly because it allows for a semantically correct page while having some text replaced with images, but also because I love sprites and I love using them well. I’ve also always been in favor of the use of CSS Image Replacement for [...]
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TwitterCounter Dashboard Widget
I’ve recently had some fun with developing the TwitterCounter API (to which we’ve added Twitter Rank yesterday) and my first Mint Pepper for it, and I decided it was time to add another milestone to my development career. I’d never developed Widgets for Apple’s Dashboard yet, but I had seen Dashcode, and that it seemed [...]
Categories: Social Media
WP 2.7 fun: complete hcards
WordPress 2.7 has an awesome new thing: it turns the comments into hCards by default. An hCard is the microformat version of a vcard, which, with microformat extensions for your browser, you can then save the data of those commenters in your address book. For instance, with the Safari microformats plugin, this looks like this: [...]
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Cool SEO tools roundup
Some of the cool SEO tools I’ve come across the last few days I just had to share with you: Google Tutor has released a very cool Google Insights bookmarklet: Once installed you should see a bookmark cleverly titled ‘Google Insights Bookmarklet’ on your bookmarks menu. To use the bookmarklet simply do a search at [...]
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10 Checks to the Perfect WordPress theme
I’ve seen it happen so often. People have a great blog, and at some point, they decide they need a new look and feel. They then decide to either buy one or use one of the free themes available at wordpress.org. There’s a couple of things they’ll look at, usually in the order: layout / [...]
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Changelog
(09-may-2007), with fixes from Harald Ueland: Implemented a better trim function, which also supports Made sure the script wouldn’t cause an error when there are 0 rows; (28-jan-2007): Fixed a bug which caused negative numbers and amounts not to sort correctly; In the process of fixing above bug, reduced filesize to 9.4kb, down from 10.2kb; [...]
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Linklove tuesday
So yesterday, DaveN declared linklove monday, so I thought it would be time for a linklove tuesday from my side! So some linklove from me, mostly to my Dutch friends and colleagues: Made for Adsense, a Dutch SEO blog, did a great post about Joost de Valk, heh, yeah, that’s me :) Barry did a [...]
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Sortable table v1.5
I’ve just updated my sortable table script to version 1.5, in which it is fixed to work in Safari for Mac OS X 10.4 as well, (I didn’t even know that it wasn’t working in there since it always worked in the nightly). I’m now taking new feature requests for this script, so hit me [...]
Categories: Webdesign & development
Media Queries work in WebKit!
There’s a new feature in the WebKit nightlies: media queries. Media queries allow you to “query” the user agent for some of it’s specifics right from within the CSS, and match your CSS to that. I have a media queries page in my CSS3 section, which shows some examples of it’s use. One of the [...]
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