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I know that I should be able to minimise windows in Windows 7 by pressing the Windows Key + Down Arrow key, and this works fine until I disable Aero snap. This seems a bit ridiculous to me, as the Aero snap checkbox says that it will "Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved...

I was having a conversation this morning about how good a job our brain does at presenting us with the right words for the context of a sentence - even if those words are slightly mis-spelled. The word that started it all off was the intentional mis-spelling of the word 'imperial' as 'imerpial'...

Can anyone tell me whether selected & disabled <option> elements should be included when serialising a form? I thought the answer would come easily from checking out the behaviour of some JavaScript frameworks, yet they differ in their behaviour. Prototype 1.7.0.0 does serialise them, but...

After battling with an existing JavaScript solutions to add document.querySelectorAll support to IE 7 and finding it failed on several counts, I've come up with a revised script that seemed to be more bullet-proof, at least for the selectors I was throwing it...

I like Gmail, but the "new look" UI has a lot of features that don't make sense... almost like they've been thrown together by a junior developer rather than thought through and planned (for example, removing the words from the buttons, then changing the "delete" button icon to something that...

I came across a word yesterday that has two meanings, one of which means the opposite of the other. Can anyone guess what the word is? It's 6 letters long and begins with the letter "c". Dan Coedit Limited - Delivering standards compliant, accessible web solutions @ Code Couch...

I've just been filling in a form on behalf of my dad, and one of the questions needed an address to send paperwork to. If I was filling in the form as me, I would have put the address and stated that it was my mother-in-law's address. Obviously, filling the form in as my dad, it would not be...

A quick search of the forum didn't show any previous discussion on the topic, and as for a Google search? Well... let's just say that I've never, ever seen an answer on Yahoo! Answers worth reading, and I've not been disappointed this time, either :-) Take the following two statements: I make...

For those who haven't got a clue what the thread title meant, I'll start with a quick & dirty example of what I understand the difference to be between nominative determinism and an aptronym. Meet Bob... Mr Bob Baker, Esq. One day, Bob decides to give up publishing his monthly magazine for men...

I've just come across a very nice bookmarklet for viewing both the delivered and the generated source of a page from mobile Safari. It also gives information about a page, such as what JS libraries are in use, the character set, font embedding techniques, analytics info, and more. A demo and...

While looking for the answer to a question regarding the performance implications of the JavaScript 'delete' operator, I found this very in-depth and worthwhile read surrounding it: http://perfectionkills.com/understanding-delete/ It's not often I get to learn that much new stuff in a day, so...

As a result of doing more Firefox add-on development, I've become more aware of just how much most JavaScript code pollutes the global namespace. I know it's over a year old now, but I've just found a handy tool to analyse the global namespace and see just how bad any pollution is. As well as...

For those who haven't been keeping up with the news, Google have released mod_pagespeed, a module that claims to double the speed at which web pages are served - without having to make changes to the web applications being hosted. You can read more here...

I found this the other day - a very nice collection of tools and utilities to make CSS development dead easy. There's pretty much something for everyone, including grid layout generators, CSS tidy tools, menu generators, effects, font tools, etc...

I'm working on a Firefox extension at the moment, and one of the things it does is hash files with the SHA512 algorithm, using Fx's nsICryptoHash interface. It works really well, but I've just discovered that the hashing routines don't appear to work on files bigger than 2,147,483,647 bytes...

For those of you who don't read Ajaxian, I'll repost here. Peter van der Zee has started a competition where you have to do something cool (could be anything - a game, demo, utility, etc) - using no more than 1kB of JavaScript. The 1kB limit includes whitespace, etc, and you are not allowed to...

From The Register today: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/30/uk_government_sticks_with_ie_6/ The UK government is to stick with IE 6 as its browser of choice because it is "more cost effective". Looks like people with cross-browser coding knowledge are still going to be very much in...

We've got a weird issue here at work that we're trying to work around. We have a bookmarklet in the links bar of IE that users can click to edit the current page in the CMS. It works well when they click it while visiting a normal web page. If they accidentally click the bookmarklet while they...

I've noticed that in Outlook 2010, some mail still ends up in the "Junk E-mail" folder. I have my junk email options set to "No Automatic Filtering", which should do nothing except put mail from blocked senders into the junk folder. However, I have no blocked senders defined... so why would...

How do I remove the Outlook 2010 icon from my Windows 7 system tray / notification area? I should clarify that I really mean "remove". I do not mean "hide". I want it gone. Permanently. I have my system tray set to always show all icons and notifications, and that is how I'd like it to stay. I...