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PNG Fix For IE using Mootools

Nic Bell — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:32:43 GMT

Firstly use PNG fixes sparingly as using regex selectors on your markup can be expensive and PNG's can cause some strange side effects.

Android on HTC HD2

Nic Bell — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:34:37 GMT

My guide to running Android on your HTC HD2. It is easier than you think and pretty stable too.

MooTools - A long Term Investment

Nic Bell — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:24:01 GMT

A lot of people do not really fully understand why I rate MooTools so highly. It is not just about how it lets me write elegant JavaScript using an object orientated approach.

Strongly Typed Collections in MooTools

Nic Bell — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:31:52 GMT

Here is how I create strongly typed collections in MooTools.

The Skeletons in Googles Closet

Nic Bell — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:40:11 GMT

One of my colleagues recently pointed out that Google AdWords does not support Opera. This immediately struck me as odd..

App Store, Android Market and Windows Marketplace for..?!

Nic Bell — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:49:17 GMT

My take on mobile application stores.

Rise Against's "Audience Of One" - Great Video

Nic Bell — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:35:48 GMT

This is one of my favourite music videos so I thought I'd share it with all of you.

AJAX Air Apps with Custom Chromes and Flash

Nic Bell — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:50:03 GMT

One of the great things about building an Adobe AIR application is the ability to make it any shape you want, it is not without its problems though.

My New Html 5 Website

Nic Bell — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:19:43 GMT

Welcome to my recently relaunched website(nicbell.net). I have built it in HTML 5 powered by my new .net CMS, which I might send open-source when I have finished a few more features.

Helvetica/Arial Based Font Stacks

Nic Bell — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:34:12 GMT

I was recently a working on my own site nicbell.net when I notice my the text looks really poor on Linux(which is growing fast). This is because Linux does not necessarily have Arial or Helvetica pre-installed.

Why are web standards important? (For dummies)

Nic Bell — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:06:59 GMT

After discovering that many people don't understand why I'm so keen on web standards I decided to write a short post.

Div off!

Nic Bell — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:33:07 GMT

As usual I've been ranting about poor mark-up.
This is not just a war a against table's, a lot developers seem to think if you replace all the tables with div's its suddenly modern semantic mark up.

XHTML 2 vs. HTML 5

Nic Bell — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:30:06 GMT

Work on XHTML 2.0 began shortly after XHTML 1.1 became a recommendation in 2001. The first XHTML 2.0 working draft was released in 2002, but much of the document was in a non-normative, incomplete state (some still is). By 2004, some prominent industry stakeholders - browser vendors, web developers, designers, and content owners - had grown unhappy with the direction of the XHTML2 working group. Citing the closed nature of the W3C process, they decided to start over and develop their own standard.