Jul 17
2010

If you haven’t tried it, gleeBox is an amazing extension. I have it installed in my Firefox and Chrome setups, and I’m more than thrilled that it’s finally available for Safari. It lets you do a lot of crazy (and useful) things with keyboard commands on any website. There’s a great writeup over at PimpMySafari​.com, so I won’t go into depth on the wonderful parts. I’ll…

Jun 20
2010

I have most of the websites I work on set up with separate development (usually local) and production/deployment servers. It’s pretty easy to keep straight when I’m first designing a site, but going back later and making changes can cause some confusion with all the refreshing and dealing with caches and all. So I’ve been using a trick to make it clear which version I’m loading…

Jun 19
2010

Just a quick hit on this one… when hacking away at the styles of things one probably shouldn’t be hacking away at, embedding images right in the CSS is a handy trick. It’s done by Base64 encoding the image, removing line breaks from the resulting string, and using it to set the background property for the CSS rule.

Jun 12
2010

There is a new version of Antique available! Check out version 1.6!

I was thrilled when it was first announced that someone had located the HTML/CSS for the new Safari Reader functionality in Safari 5, which happened the day it was released. I’ve been toying around with some ideas in the days since, and this hack is the result of a little too much effort. Click…