For awhile I have been lamenting the overall lack of progress in web analytics. I’ve been in the industry for 10 years now, and although the methodology behind collecting data has improved, the graphs have got a bit prettier, and the integration with online marketing tools such as Google AdWords has greatly improved, overall, it [...]

Robert O’Callahan is a full-time employee of the Mozilla Foundation and has been contributing to Netscape which became the Firefox browser since 1999. Mozilla has a development team of 5 people in Auckland, New Zealand, led by Robert. What is coming up with Firefox 3? Animated PNG This is one of the restrictions at the [...]

Darren Wood works for Finda as a front end developer. He mentions the blueprintcss CSS framework and another is YUI, the Yahoo! User Interface Library. There is a lot of discussion about if you really need a CSS framework. The advantages are that you can save a lot of time by using a standard framework [...]

I’m at the Barcamp event in Auckland. The first session I attended was by Rob Coup who is one of the contributing developers to The Dojo Toolkit. Dojo is a Javascript development toolkit along the lines of JQuery, Prototype etc. This one is open source but commercially funded by a few companies including Sun and [...]

The W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium, the organisation responsible for defining standards on the web. They have just announced plans to introduce a new set of standards that will allow a single website to be developed that works on computers and mobile devices. This would obviously require buy-in from the various mobile device [...]

Images on web pages is always a challenge, especially as we deal with the complexity of different screen resolutions, browser configurations and now mobile devices with much smaller screen sizes. This is potentially the answer to this issue and is amazing. Essentially the ability to resize the image, including completely changing the dimensions (not just [...]

A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, there was a factory. The managers in this factory decided they wanted to improve productivity so they conducted some tests. They tested the impact of lighting on the output of the workers. They decreased it the light slightly and to their surprise productivity increased. [...]

Rumours abound that a partnership deal between SalesForce and Google is in the works and will be released in the next few weeks. As a customer/partner of both companies, we would welcome this. Google have nothing the CRM space now that I know of and I think they would be crazy to go it alone, [...]

Just quickly, whilst working on something today (sorry Top Secret, can’t tell you – i’d have to send the Ninjas round) I ran into the need to add some spans to <a> tags. But in such a way that it was automated. And sometimes different // Justins awesome access <a> thingee… var initialText var firstCharacter [...]

The lovely fellows at Joost have just provided us, the humble Beta testers, with additional invitations to hand out to friends etc. If you’re keen to give Joost a try but don’t feel like bidding for an invite on eBay, drop me a line and I’ll send you one. In the event of demand exceeding [...]