WebCT was infamous for it’s calculated column formula textarea that you couldn’t type in. When John Krutsch developed a clever Javascript hack for it (just one of several cool IE-only hacks packaged as WebCT PowerTools), crafting unusual formulas was suddenly more viable, and we began dropping not just the lowest score, but several low scores (more…)
Doug Johnson wrote a short post decrying “competitive blogging” as suggested by various awards, such as the “Eddies” and authoritative ranking systems such as technorati. Doug rhetorically asks, “Do we really want competitive blogging?” I posted my answer in the comments: “Yes.” But I should have been more specific (more…)
Sitepoint offered up an article by Tim Wright (CSSKarma), CSS Angles: Just the Edge Your Web Page Needs!, which shows that increasing the size of a single border property results in an angular object that can be placed behind things. After some experimentation I found a new solution and a new conundrum (more…)