Top Ten Most Read Blog Posts of 2010

With the end of 2010 nigh, I thought I’d use Google Analytics to inform me of my top ten most read blog posts, based on the number of visits they received (I assume they were read, who knows really!).

It’s more of a personal interest thing, but thought I’d share it all the same. Happy New Year to you all!

  1. Enabling the HTML5 parser in Firefox 3.6.

    When Firefox 3.6 was released in January, it had a HTML5 parser included but which wasn’t on by default. This simple post told you how to enable it. It seems to have been quite popular throughout the year which is odd since it’s up to version 3.6.13 by now and is enabled by default and the method described is no longer relevant.

  2. Fading issue with repeating background transparent image in Internet Explorer

    Quite a long winded title but it needs to be. Internet Explorer has problems rendering a transparent image that is repeated, if the image in question has the dimensions of 1×1. Understandably popular as it’s a bizarre issue.

  3. The confusion surrounding HTML5

    This is an article I wrote for the online version of PC Pro which talks about how the term HTML5 has caused a lot of confusion due to its misuse by some big name companies. It also attempts to address them. I hope it succeeded.

  4. Shadowbox and Internet Explorer 8

    Shadow box (a popular and powerful lightbox by Michael J. I. Jackson) used to cause a JavaScript error in Internet Explorer 8. This post explained how to fix it. Probably irrelevant these days.

  5. Accessing data records from Excel and CSV files in VB.NET

    This post explained how to access and read data from both Excel and CSV files in VB.NET. I had come across the issue at work and decided to pull all the information I learnt together.

  6. Adventures with @font-face

    The @font-face is a CSS rule that was given a new lease of life with CSS3. This post attempted to provide a simple tutorial on how to go about using it to embed fonts into your web page.

  7. Twitter Tools 2.0 and WordPress 2.8.6

    At the time Twitter Tools and WordPress 2.8.6 didn’t get on and there were authentication errors galore. This was one solution to this problem which worked for me. Irrelevant now though as WordPress is on 3.0.2 and Twitter Tools is on 2.4.

  8. Grid Focus HTML5 WordPress theme

    I had been using the Grid Focus WordPress theme for a while on this site and decided to convert it to valid HTML5. On doing this I released it (with original developer Derek Punsalan’s permission) as a download from this site.

  9. Generating a relative path in C#

    I had come across an issue at work where I needed to find a relative path between one absolute directory and another in C# and was unable to find a native library that provided the functionality. A Google search turned up some useful code and I reposted it.

  10. Introducing HTML5 – book review

    Back in September I read and reviewed Introducing HTML5 by Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp and posted it here.