A couple of days ago I read an article on Site Sketch 101 about automatically adding image attribution, when using images from for example the Flickr Creative Commons licensed images, to these images using PHP. This made me think, it should not be to difficult to create the same functionality using jQuery and the rel attribute. With that, I set out to create a small and simple jQuery plugin that will do just that. The end result is, no surprise here, the jQuery …

HTML5 is probably the biggest news that hit the web developer community since Ajax. One of the most exiting elements, when last did we get so excited over a single element, would be the canvas element. I am not going to go into what canvas is and everything that can be done with canvas but, suffice it to say, canvas is a blank ‘canvas’ onto which we can ‘draw’, draw being a broad term here, using JavaScript.

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One of the biggest aspects that made Firefox such a popular browser for users was the plethora of plugins that is available to enhance the browser. From utilities to make repetitive tasks easier to some of the most advanced web development tools that has changed the life’s of web developers the world over. When Chrome was released, the amazing speed and small footprint of the browser had people switching over to Chrome in spades. One thing the browser did lack though, was …

A day or so ago I wrote a post about the extensions for developers already available for those running the developer or beta channel versions of Chrome. In  this post I also mentioned the extension that allows you to search the PHP docs. From the time I new about the extensions I wanted to write an extension and seeing the PHP one I thoughts, heck, why not write one for searching the jQuery docs as this is something I do …

Chrome has been my default browser now for some time but, when developing web apps, back to Firefox it is. The rich selection of developer extension such as Firebug, HTMLTidy and the web developer toolbar as well as useful tools like ColorZilla and MeasureIt makes developing web apps just that little easier. This is all about to change as a while ago the flood gates opened when Google announced that the developer channel version of the Chrome browser now supports …