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Author: Tracy Rotton

  • Do You Still Test in IE7?

    Hi there, fellow web developers. I stopped testing for Internet Explorer 6 a while ago, simply because I had enough trouble managing virtual machines to handle testing in IE7, IE8 and IE9.  Now with my primary client fully switched over to IE8, I find myself rarely, if ever, even testing in IE7.  In fact, I…

  • A Mobile Safari “Duh” Tip

    Update: I spoke too soon! Sarah used this on this week’s show. Awesome! I recorded this Mobile Safari “Duh” tip for iPad Today, but they didn’t use it on this week’s show. Their loss. Enjoy!

  • Why HTML5 Isn’t Ready for Government Prime Time

    HTML5 goodness is all around us now, with its semantic nature in elements such as <article> and <section>. But when it comes to using HTML5 in websites for the U.S. federal government, there are some major obstacles in the way.

  • In Defense of Accommodating “Lesser” Browsers

    Among the elite of the web development world, and those who aspire to the elite, there seems to be an increasing push to say “websites don’t have to look the same in every browser.” And I agree with that. Really I do.

  • BBEdit 10

    I guess I’m going to be in the minority for not heaping praise upon BBEdit’s new update, version 10.[1. See also: MacWorld’s review and IT Inquirer’s review, among others.] However, as a long-time user (I think I started using it somewhere around version 4, IIRC), there have been enough changes in this version to throw my whole…

  • Update to TC Comment Out

    Fresh off the presses, I have an update to my original WordPress plugin, TC Comment Out. I’ve added the ability to add an attribute that will completely remove the commented out text from the finished page altogether, rather than hide it inside HTML comments (which, by the way, is still the default behavior). So now,…

  • TC Disable Browser Upgrade Warning

    Yeah, I’ve released another small, but hopefully useful for some, WordPress plugin called “TC Disable Browser Upgrade Warning” which, wait for it, removes the “Your browser is out of date!” warning dashboard widget on your administration home page.

  • Update on the Free Mr. Tony Situation

    So I’ve been using DAR.fm for a couple of weeks now, and things seem to be going fairly smoothly.  At first, there was a few seconds of overlap between one part and the next, but now that’s even gone away and aside from a quick stutter, one part rolls nicely into the next without Mr….

  • Quick Fix for Network Issues

    Occasionally, when I’m on the client’s site, the Internet connection on my MacBook Pro completely dies even though I’m connected to the Wi-Fi network and have a valid (that is, not self-assigned) IP address.  Usually this is caused when the VPN I’m connected to (yes, even though I’m on the client site I still sometimes…

  • Free Mr. Tony! (And Here’s How To Do It)

    At about the same time as WTEM ESPN980 decided that it would delay releasing its unabridged podcast of The Tony Kornheiser Show for twenty-four hours, David Pogue of the New York Times released his podcast and column spotlighting a little something called DAR.fm. What is it? Nothing less than a way that YOU can help…