Becoming an MVB for DZone
Recently I was approached by DZone, where they asked if I wanted to become one of their MVBs.
Recently I was approached by DZone, where they asked if I wanted to become one of their MVBs.
I felt it was about time to bring up the topic in one of my oldest drafts (written in May 2005) which, for some reason, never saw the light of day.
Something was brought to my attention which, to say the least, left me a little baffled: IE 6 is coming to mobile phones…
When I review web sites, and also in my own projects with a number of different team members, I almost constantly stumble across something web developers should really refrain from: inline styling and inline JavaScript code.
The reason why I use Macs is pretty simple:
Image taken from FAIL Blog.
And, to be honest, I think this epitomizes my view on Vista: it’s something which should never fail, but just did.
It was time for me to stop being a whiny lazy developer, and instead properly learn to develop Firefox extensions. So. the result is version 0.8 of Obtrusive JavaScript Checker, as a very much improved Firefox extension.
Something which have troubled web developers for a long long time is the proprietary event handling implementation in Internet Explorer. In IE 8, this really has to go.
With the latest release of Obtrusive JavaScript Checker and its cool information and report features, I got the request to make it as a command for Ubiquity as well. So, here you go! 🙂
When I launched Obtrusive JavaScript Checker, I immediately felt it had more potential, and I definitely had more features to add to make it even more compelling. Therefore, here comes a new release with javascript:
link support, detailed inline event information and a summary report.