Posts by Aaron Gustafson 

A few projects back, I decided to rethink our JavaScript organization strategy and came up with a new technique that, I think, helps us better manage behaviors from page to page.

By default (or at least in the default configuration provided under the LG TinyMCE extension for ExpressionEngine), TinyMCE will remove the alt attribute if it is empty. Obviously, for accessibility and validation reasons, this is highly undesirable and needs correcting.

This decision by the W3C to not renew the charter for the XHTML2 Working Group has, rather unfortunately, brought out the worst in the Web standards community. Personally, I have mixed feelings about the decision.

After a stupid mistake that led to catastrophic data loss, Easy! Reader is back, has moved to a new platform, and will soon be graced by a few new voices.

As some of you have read (or heard), WaSP organized a Round Table discussion on IE8’s standards mode and its default behavior of opting-out any sites that don’t engage in version targeting.

In reaction to my latest article for A List Apart, on FigureHandler, many folks have boldly claimed that this sort of thing should be done server-side. Here are my thoughts on the matter.

First off, let me preface this by saying I just got back to the East Coast after catching a red-eye from San Francisco on Saturday night, so if I seem a bit incoherent, that’s likely why.

Back in 2005, I wrote a piece about IE’s abysmal generation of NAMEd elements via the DOM (which, interestingly enough, has proven to be one of the most popular posts on the blog, pointing to the fact that this is an obvious pain point for many DOM scripters out there).

So, as it turns out, this little app I built for myself is actually useful to other folks.