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A quick tip on how to enable HTML5 elements such as <section> and <header> in Internet Explorer. I’m afraid it does require Javascript:
document.createElement("section")
Archive for December, 2009
Styling HTML5 elements in IE
23.12.2009 By: ronansprake Under: Technical Comments: none
The state of jQuery
22.12.2009 By: ronansprake Under: Industry News, Technical Comments: none
As 2009 draws to a close, there are many things to look forward to in the New Year: Google Wave hitting the big-time, Typekit as a real alternative to sIFR and Cufon, developments in mobile Web technology and (hopefully) an end to supporting IE6! One thing I’m particularly looking forward to is the new version of jQuery, slated for a mid-January release.
Detecting IE6 without jQuery.browser
21.12.2009 By: ronansprake Under: Technical Comments: none
I would never normally recommend browser sniffing, but as long as the spectre of IE6 still haunts us, we need a way to patch the many holes of this spectacularly bad browser.
Ginger Bread Friday
18.12.2009 By: adamcollison Under: Creative, Just for fun Comments: 4
Its nearing christmas and the atmosphere in the studio is a little more relaxed than normal. Not wanting to let our creative talent go to waste we decided to have a ginger bread decoration competition.
The future (and history) of web typography
17.12.2009 By: alanofford Under: Creative Comments: none
Having learnt mostly traditional print at university, the restrictions placed on designers by the internet came as something of shock, especially when you consider the unparalleled opportunities for communicating that the web promises. It seems ridiculous that fonts online have, up to now, been limited to just a few generic styles, rather like an actor, who once up in front of the cameras is told he can only perform in a Glaswegian accent. With a lisp.
Facebook Application – User Guide
14.12.2009 By: adamcollison Under: Facebook Apps, Technical Comments: none
As our Facebook application workload increases more and more clients have the need to modify the application information available to them.
We have written this simple step by step instruction guide for users who are not actual developers but want to customise the main information about their application.
Facebook Apps and Infinite Session Keys
08.12.2009 By: adamcollison Under: Facebook Apps, Technical Comments: none
When creating facebook applications there are a number of tasks involved that are not very well documented on the web, one of which is infinite session keys and how to use them.
Speeding up the Web: faster Google Analytics and DNS
03.12.2009 By: ronansprake Under: Technical Comments: none
With the imminent launch of their new search infrastructure dubbed Caffeine, Google will be using page load speed as a factor in Google search results. Caffeine should be good news for those of us who have sleepless nights thinking of ways to lighten the page load.
Web performance seems to have a been a hot topic for Google lately, the latest developments bringing a new release of Analytics tracking code and a public DNS service.
