Now that the business cards are in, it's official. As of a few weeks ago, I joined the team at Technorati to head up their HTML, CSS, and Javascript development.
Unfortunately, this means that I'll have significantly less time for client work. I'll be unable to accept any new projects until at least January 2007. Once I'm able to fulfill my current commitments and get a better handle on my new responsibilities, I plan on taking on a limited number of hours each week.
Until then, I'll use this space to showcase some of the very cool things we're building over at Technorati from a more technical perspective. Stay tuned.
I admit it: I hate supporting IE 5. I intentionally left it out of the Holy Grail layout (although some intrepid developers picked up the trail and posted a fix).
It's not just because I'm lazy. Perhaps partly because I'm lazy. But not entirely.
Deciding which browsers to support is always a judgement call. You have to draw the line somewhere. As I see it, there are at least three considerations that can help you determine which browsers make the cut.
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Today my 30-day trial of TextMate expired. This was the moment of truth: do I plunk down the €39 for a license, or go back to TextWrangler? As I live in a text editor, this was no small choice.
It wasn't, however, a very difficult choice. Don't get me wrong: TextWrangler and I had many happy months together. But it's time for me to move on. TextMate was easily worth the investment.
I admit that TextMate didn't take at first. I was first introduced to it via the inimitable Merlin, but was scared away by the anti-aliased and italicized monospace fonts. It was only after seeing it in action with Rails that I gave it another shot, and this time I was hooked.
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When we last left our layout, it had overcome the daunting Firefox wrapping problem (by applying a more generous minimum width).
However, the left column was still disappearing when the browser was resized vertically in IE. Without a solution, the search for the Holy Grail was an unfinished crusade.
I'm happy to announce that the problem has been solved.
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My Holy Grail article went up at A List Apart earlier today, and the reaction so far has (mostly) been fantastic:
The simple CSS seems to be too good to be true... Thanks.
Varun N
Simple, sweet, concise, and I've been beating the stuffing out of it on different browers, trying to mess it up with incorrectly sized photos — and it hangs in there. Great article, keep up the good work...
Larry Preston
Levine's Holy Grail version is great, and it does (gasp!) work in newer versions of IE... Great article and great layout.
Andrew Peace
And — if you can forgive my enthusiasm — the article currently has over 1,200 diggs and nearly 1,500 del.icio.us bookmarks. Huzzah!
Unfortunately, a couple problems have popped up.
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