I am tired of people having this debate about the relative impact of pejorative words on their target minority group. If injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, then the relative power of an antigay gay slur is irrelevant, it is simply a threat to human dignity, and that should appall us all. That’s [...] [Posted: 15 Apr 2011]
Debugging is part of my day job at Opera. Today, I stumbled across an issue related to white spaces and values for the HTML type attribute that affects Opera. Take a look at the following code: var d = 'test.js'; var s = document.createElement('script'); s.setAttribute("type", " text/javascript"); // note the leading space s.src = d; [...] [Posted: 12 Apr 2011]
“The way I make sense of that is that women, for better or worse, live their lives with this idea that they might experience sexual assault at some point. There are public models of how to recover from rape. Men don’t have any expectation that this might happen to them. It’s very difficult to figure [...] [Posted: 8 Apr 2011]
I’m going, and because of the nature of a BarCamp — show up, sign up, give a talk — I will also be speaking. What’s BarCampLA? Barcamp is a ad-hoc technology conference where attendees are the speakers. Got something cool to share with your fellow tech geeks? Been working on a neat side project? Come [...] [Posted: 8 Apr 2011]
Posted for posterity (or at least until these links rot), a list of links and books to get you started. This list isn’t exhaustive by any stretch. Have any other resources to share? Post in the comments. Eloquent JavaScript JavaScript from the Mozilla Developer Center Microsoft’s Scripting Guide for Internet Explorer WebKit DOM Reference Opera [...] [Posted: 7 Apr 2011]
Examples of CSS gradients are cropping up in the wild, and with good reason. CSS gradients: don’t require the additional HTTP request of an image file. are easier to modify than image files. “weigh less” than most image files. That’s the ideal, at least. In their current state, gradients are actually a hot mess. The [...] [Posted: 6 Apr 2011]