The web is full of articles discussing how to render transparent 24-bit png images in IE6 - so why write another one Three reasons First, although the long hoped for...

Peter wrote a good post last month about the power of links It strange to be evangelizing links over ten years into the Web revolution, but in an ironic twist, what the...

As many of you know, I'm a big fan of Atom, including both the syndication format and publishing protocol At Foss4g, I gave a talk that argued that Atom offers a better solution...

As I've mentioned a number of times, I'm a big fan of Atom and the Atom publishing protocol and believe they will become the lingua franca of Web Services, including spatial web...

Peter and Tim have been blogging about one of the least undestood parts of REST - how state is handled Tim puts it nicely: The essence of REST is to make the states of the...

Chris Tweedie posted an interesting reply to my rant about GIS standards and took me to task for "WMS bashing" and why WMS is a useful Enterprise standard Perhaps - except I...

Let's face facts - the stable of GIS Web standards is suboptimal To show you what I mean, let's think about the common things you'd want to do with web mapping and see if...

A couple of weeks ago I blogged that Safari 3 beta's SVG support was buggy Here's a concrete example (if you are using Internet Explorer unfortunately you won't see anything...

Silly me - I thought gaudy, in-your-face advertising went out with the Dotcom boom Apparently not As I was reading the Denver Post the other day, I watched in horror, and...

Update - Armin has an alternate implementation based on some fancy regular expressions combined with String's split method Its supports most of ERB and avoids all the string...

Opera 9 is a great browser - it small, standards compliant and fast And not just slightly faster - really fast (I don't believe Apple's browser speed comparision they've put up...

Its not every day someone takes the time to write me an open letter - I have to say its kind of fun Brian added some additional thoughts to our ongoing conversation about GML In...

Now that you've launched your new killer Web 20 website, how do you detect errors in your deployed Javascript Using onerror The standard approach is to hook into...

Its a rare day that a truly good standard comes along Its an even rarer day that the standard get widely adopted So the developers of Atom should stand up and take a bow - not...

If you write a lot of JavaScript, then you'll find Matthias Miller's website chockfull of useful information And even better, he's put together two great tools The first is...

For MapBuzz browser testing, we need to control the x and y locations of the mouse cursor Selenium didn't support this functionality, so I coded it up one evening and submitted...

Last month I blogged about Selenium, which is an open source project that let's you test web applications running in a variety of browser Unfortunately, Selenium doesn't work out...

One of the great ironies of the Web is that a huge number of technical people refuse to believe what is right in front of their eyes The Web is the world's most diverse and...

There are good tools for testing most parts of web applications At the base level, almost every language has a unit testing framework Above that, some web frameworks, like...

Just noticed that Joe Hewitt has posted an updated version of Firebug He's taken a great extension and turned it into the best Firefox extension by far Its an absolutely...