Author Archives: Chris Williams

WebKit bug with Lazy Load plug-​in

WebKit has a bug that affects Safari, Chrome, and Mobile Safari1. Images still load even when you manip­u­late remove the src attribute in JavaScript. First, let me state that Lazy Load is a great plug-​in! I think it’s a very well writ­ten, sim­ple and … Continue read­ing

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Rick Santorum

Who is Rick Santorum? I’m doing my part to make sure folks know. As long as net neu­tral­ity is alive and well, let’s hope it stays that way. Learn more about Rick Santorum here. 1. Mother Jones “Scrubbing Santorum” September/​October 2010 Issue

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Piracy and ethics. When a plus b equal 4

Go ahead and hate your neigh­bor Go ahead and cheat your friend Do it in the name of heaven You can jus­tify it in the end Joan Baez I under­stand that copy­right laws change all the time. Not too long … Continue read­ing

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Webmail adds image spacing

Attention you HTML email authors. Your newslet­ters are jacked. Webmail apps, in an effort to pre­vent the auto­matic down­load­ing of images in order to pre­vent open rates for spam­mers, use scripts to manip­u­late the load­ing of images. Unfortunately, this changes … Continue read­ing

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Never start with Photoshop

I was asked recently about my design process in cre­at­ing web­sites. I’ve been asked this before in inter­views and by peers. My answer is, “Never with Photoshop.” In fact, Photoshop is usu­ally my last step in the process. Even in … Continue read­ing

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WYSISYG literally

I com­pletely for­got about this.

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Mobile Safari needs a little jQuery .live() love

file under: the impor­tance of device test­ing Just a quick note about how Mobile Safari gets along with .live(). As a mat­ter of cod­ing style, I usu­ally assign my actions to links and but­tons. Sometimes I don’t. <li>Title of Something <span class=“more”></span></li> This code … Continue read­ing

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So Google is evil now? What’s our alternative?

Remember when that guy from Whole Foods turned came out and said we don’t deserve health care? Or how Target was caught giv­ing money to anti-​gay can­di­dates? Every time some com­pany does some­thing we deem stu­pid or wrong, we imme­di­ately … Continue read­ing

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New WordPress iPhone App test

Testing out the new iPhone app. Well, new to me at least.

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What’s up with that?

file under: too long to fit on twit­ter. On the left-​hand side of Google’s search results page. There are two hid­den search option sec­tions. When you click “More” it slides down and the options fade in at the same time. … Continue read­ing

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