theCSSdiv | Ross Bruniges

This morning I saw an email going around the LBi mailing list from one of the application developers mentioning some weird behavior noticed in IE.

In a nutshell a load of CSS modules had been concatenated into one file leading to quite a large number of selectors being used. He found that after a certain point (4096 selectors) IE would ignore everything after it. I had never heard of this before and from reading some comments I got on Twitter a few other folk hadn’t either… Keep reading →

Yesterday night I had planned to come home and write up some slides on something interesting for todays BarCamp at The Guardian offices. Instead of that I came home, noticed that there was beer in the fridge and decided it would be a good idea to drink them all.

Therefore I have no slides, no idea for an interesting talk and have decided that instead of me talking about stuff that I deem interesting I am going to throw those kind of choices out to you guys instead. In a blatant rip off of talks hosted by Norm! in recent BarCamps I will be taking questions from the audience (assuming I get one) on anything and everything (with hopefully amusing results).

If you didn’t manage to get a ticket but would still like me to answer your questions (I’m hoping that the talks may be recorded or videoed in some way) then please leave questions in the comments below (indeed this could be a good place for anyone at BarCamp or not to leave me their contributions…

Lets see how this one pans out…..

One of the ‘cool’ little features I managed to shoe-horn into capitalradio.co.uk London Guide was a nice little jQuery plug-in that I called the “expando of win”. It’s a fairly simple piece of functionality but I’ve done it in a way that I’ve yet to see and is hopefully going to be a bit friendlier on performance by keeping DOM manipulations to a minimum. It can be seen live in a the wild on event pages such as the fairly bizarre sounding Body Worlds and the Mirror of Time held at the o2. Keep reading →