You know the real-life accessibility, right? I’m not talking about web accessibility, I’m talking about parking spots for people with disabilities and ramps for wheelchairs, which the most of the major cities around the world provide. It’s however not very rare that some rednecks take away designated parking spot or leave a car in front of the ramp. Assholes…

Few weeks ago, I walked around the down-town and spotted a terrific traffic sign:

It’s the usual set of signs—especially this threat that the car will be removed if inappropriately parked (i.e. the owner is not the one with disability or handicapped). But, what’s pretty unusual (at least to me) is the yellow board which says:

“If you took away my spot, will you also take away my handicap?”

Thanks to faithful readers Louis and Daniel, I fixed my feed, which wasn’t recognized by certain RSS aggregators. I also apologize for inconvenience to all of you who had such problems. My FeedDemon will digest anything, so I had no clue something’s wrong. Anyway, shame on me. Continue reading ›

I wrote a short story about Open in New Window links, entitled Let visitors decide whether or not will they open link in a new window. DOM/JavaScript resources included. On the side note, try resizing text on that page.

The web site 24sata we made this winter is the perfect example of successful site management. They deliver fresh content on a daily basis and they also try to stay relevant. The printed edition and the web site are both targeted towards younger population. Their content ranges from political actualities to sports and entertainment. Articles are short and concise. When launching the site, we provided full color printed manual (90 pages!) for the web site management. And boy did that pay off! It’s really great seeing those guys using all features we built in the administration area. There are a few examples of common Flash teasers they created to pull readers in. We can’t be more proud! Continue reading ›

Yesterday my wife and I celebrated our *cough* third anniversary *cough*. Being my best friend and the person who knows me best, she had no problem finding a perfect gift, the Veer Font Savant T-shirt.

Thanks for allowing me to be in love with you and I promise I’ll grow-up someday… but not today : )

Now that the majority of CSS blogosphere is accessing the Internet with some kind of broadband connection, we kind of forget about Dial-up users. We do all kind of trickery to make our images lighter and faster to download, but even though, sometimes the first time visitor gets the flicker when hovering a link with a background image.

Most of the time, pixy’s workaround with a single image, which is positioned accordingly will do, but sometimes for whatever reason, we need completely separate images. Preloading background images with CSS is so cheap trick, that I sometimes laugh at myself how could I forget about it.

a { background: url(image_hover.gif); }
a:link { background: url(image_default.gif); }
a:hover,
a:focus { background: url(image_hover.gif); }

Update

The code example was rather generic, now it’s altered for those who are in a hurry : ) and have no time to read through valuable discussion in the comments.

Many Mac users prefer Safari to less attractive, but more standards compliant Gecko-browsers. When we talk about CSS and DOM support, Safari is overall nice browser. There are, however, a few more or less annoying bugs. If somebody from Apple listens, it would be really great if you could fix some of those. Until they do something about it, here’s a quick overview with a workaround where applicable. Continue reading ›

This year’s aeromeeting was better than the last year’s. Great opening with group flight from Austrian guest group of four old Saabs followed by the two attractive acrobatic demonstrations by Slovenian guest pilots. Those were great—looking at them doing all those difficult turns, makes you start wondering how the heck they know where they are when they finish some complicated loop. Continue reading ›

The summary of our latest project client-side development brought to conclusion that there’re are really just a few essential Internet Explorer hacks. By careful structure planning, I managed to stripe down all hackery to a much less additional rules. Since they are promising IE7 some time soon, more and more I think about secure CSS hacking. We surely don’t want our sites to be a mess in IE7 for it’s quite possibly half-repaired CSS support. Continue reading ›

Quite often I run to a discussion about how nowadays developers use nested div elements to replace tables. These words mostly come from boring guys who’s only worry is to criticize other people’s work. Well, if you’re one of those, please don’t do that. Continue reading ›

There’s no better praise for the client-side developer than the following quote from Web Standards Awards:

“The time taken to convert this site’s unique design from Flash into Standards-compliant HTML has reaped its rewards, providing a slick and well-executed interface on top of rock solid code – exactly what the Web Standards Awards are about.”

Visit web.burza.

After receiving some feedback, here is an updated version of Backup2Mail. The installation is now a little bit easier as the permissions on the backup_log.txt are now changed automagically and the file itself is created on the server if it doesn’t exist. There is also a better Cron setup explanation in the README.txt file.

Download Backup2Mail v0.11b.

Backup and downloading a web site’s database can be really annoying sometimes. It’s something we don’t want to miss, yet we often do. I never lost any of my databases, but I know some guys who unfortunately did.

This PHP script will — with a help of Cron Jobs — backup your MySQL database and send it to specified e-mail address. I suggest creating a separate account, for example backup@yourdomain.com, which will be accessed via web mail if needed. If you have really big database, you wouldn’t want to download it every day (or few times a day). Gmail will do in case you don’t have overly sensitive data.

So, without further ado, I’m releasing this life-saving piece of code. Download Backup2Mail v0.1b. Instructions included.

If you are adventurous type, uncomment the last line in the config.php and feel free to report me errors. Also ask in the comments if you run into a trouble.