For a while now I have been reading through the new HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript specs and posting my results with regards to browser support etc. on thebrowsereview.com. Recently I started looking at Offline Web Applications. One of the many interesting things I found is the navigator.onLine property. The W3C spec states the following:

In addition to those APIs HTML 5 also defines an onLine attribute on the Navigator object so you can determine whether you are currently online

This can be …

One of the ways to make a large amount of tabular data easier to read for the end user is to use alternating row colors. This technique is known as zebra tables and has been around for some time and serves it’s purpose very well.

To accomplish this, developers rely on JavaScript because of the dynamic nature of the tables. If your table was static, you could accomplish this using CSS because you could add a class on every odd row …

A couple of days ago Ethan Schoonover released Solarized, a color palette designed for use with terminal and gui applications. Over the last 6 months or so I have been using Notepad++ more and more for my daily coding. The default theme is just to harsh and I have been using the Bespin theme for some time now. While this is a really well designed theme, I always felt that there are some aspects of it that I just did not like …

For a long time now, web developers have searched for and used a variety of techniques to target styles to specific browsers and browser versions to fix incorrect implementations of web standards or simply bugs. The biggest culprit of the bunch is our good friend Internet Explorer.

As developers we have moved on from the various style sheet hacks such as * and _ and embraced conditional comments to target specific versions of IE. While this works, it does add an …

A couple of days ago I was watching a talk by Paul Irish at the jQuery Boston Conference. During his talk he mentioned video for everybody. Now, Video for Everyone does not use JavaScript to achieve it’s objective but simply a predefined chunk of HTML.

I thought I would take a stab at creating a jQuery plugin that would do something similar to Video for Everybody but instead, for audio. Because I am using JavaScript and not a chunk of HTML to …