Category Archives: web
Amazon Associates has a sense of humor
Why are you signing up for Amazon Associates?
The case of the dirty validator (why web filters suck)
Web developers, be warned! Your secret page-validating habit has been found out: This nonsense proudly brought to you by PurePages, providers of nonsense filters use by mmmuffins wifi at Toronto Union Station.
Fixing the mysterious “Element script is missing required attribute src” error
Suppose you're using the W3C validator to validate HTML5. Here's a sample document: <!doctype html> <html lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>Hello</title> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> //<![CDATA[ var foo = 1; //]]> </script> </head> <body> </body> </html> Everything looks right, … Continue reading
Speed matters
Performance is huge. We think of it as a feature. Speed is the best feature your product can have. Last year Google introduced these performance enhancements to Picasa to make flipping through photos faster, and the usage more than doubled. … Continue reading
Why I don’t like Salsa labs, reason #1
They don’t support Safari or Chrome: Here’s what goes wrong:
Handling Rails errors: custom error pages, logging, notification
Facebook doesn’t understand Canada
When you update your Facebook account and link your interests and activities to the new community pages, Facebook automatically assigns a picture to represent each interest. Sometimes that doesn’t work very well: