http://www.spicyjam.org A few words about things Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:05:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday I came up against and issue with IE6 that I hadn't notice before - at least not directly. When I construct my xhtml I like to add a comment to the end of the closing div tag to aid readability However IE6 will sometimes treats this as a 1px padding ... http://www.spicyjam.org/archives/10 Flash video is my flavour of choice when it comes to video on the web. Extremely flexible, simple and with Flash Player being the most popular browser plugin, it seems to me like a real winner. I hate a lot of the ways people apply Flash, but for me it ... http://www.spicyjam.org/archives/9 Have you ever noticed with Firefox that whenever you click on a link a dotted/dashed box appears around that link? Well here's how to get around it - I think there are other methods using .htc files but the one I use is purely CSS based and is easily added to ... http://www.spicyjam.org/archives/7 Andy has kindly asked me to contribute to Spicy Jam, so here's my first post. I'm a freelance web developer based in the South West, focusing mostly on PHP/MySQL solutions with a bit of JavaScript and DOM scripting trickery chucked in for extra flavour. Hopefully I'll be able to share ... http://www.spicyjam.org/archives/5 A short while ago (8th Sept) I attended the second d.construct in Brighton. Organised by Clear:left It had some interesting speakers from Amazon, Yahoo!, Google and elsewhere. The theme of the conference was aimed at those building the latest generation of web-based applications. With particluar emphasis to Mashups, APIs and Web ... http://www.spicyjam.org/archives/4 This is the first post on Spicy Jam. So for those of you reading this - welcome. For those of you who found this site - congratulations - because it's only been up 10 minutes. http://www.spicyjam.org/archives/1