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Seeing my home server from my phone 14 Aug 2013 | 08:13 pm
I’ve got a computer in my cellar. It’s where media lives, and a bunch of little web apps that I’ve written to do stuff that I care about. It’d be handy to be able to get at those little web apps from ...
Federated uncertainty 12 Aug 2013 | 01:51 pm
Tim Bray from Google is starting a conversation about “federated login”, the idea of logging into websites using your Google/Facebook/Twitter/something identity. It starts well, with When you click o...
Why sorttable doesn’t handle colspanned rows 26 Jul 2013 | 10:45 pm
My sorttable JavaScript library (for, er, sorting HTML tables) doesn’t handle tables with colspanned rows in them. I get asked about this a lot. So, a note. Sorttable doesn’t handle colspanned cells ...
Random scenes in my head from books I’ll never write 16 Jul 2013 | 03:49 am
“And who’s he?” asked Kent, gesturing at the old man. “He’s English,” said Marvel. “No, I mean; who is he? What’s his place in all this?” “You misunderstand,” said Marvel. Her eyes dropped. “He is ...
All for one (one Birmingham, that is) 12 Jul 2013 | 05:36 am
Birmimgham is a great big city with a bunch of tech stuff going on. But it’s hard to work out, if you live here, all the stuff that’s happening, techwise. I miss out on events all the time. Let’s talk...
The actual web 9 Jul 2013 | 05:20 am
Every now and again I have a weird little idea for an app — a game, whatever. And my default position is to build it with HTML and CSS. The DOM, that is. Not canvas; not WebGL. Now, I freely admit tha...
Open for business 2 Jul 2013 | 01:34 pm
So, I’m in business for myself! I’m now Kryogenix Consulting. I suspect that a good proportion of the people reading this will know who I am already, but if not (this is the promotion bit): I’m Stuar...
Setting a custom drag image for HTML5 drag and drop 22 Jun 2013 | 04:20 pm
After some playing around, I found myself annoyed by HTML5 drag and drop not being able to set a custom image when dragging in the way I wanted it to. Some more analysis and a solution, which will lik...
Because you got it early 11 Jun 2013 | 01:33 am
Recently I read an article about how the newest update of Windows has copied a bunch of user interface ideas from Ubuntu. Now, the article was written with tongue mildly-in-cheek (and all the better f...
The thing and the whole of the thing: on DRM in HTML 6 Jun 2013 | 09:36 pm
Bruce Lawson started a very interesting discussion about the Encrypted Media Extensions to HTML a few months ago, with learned and interesting commentary from John Foliot and others. After devoting so...
