Now that the new year is here, many of us will forget to change the © copyright date on our many websites. I’ve never really been sure why developers don’t always automate this process and therefore not have to worry about it at the change of the year. In this short post I will show you some quick methods of automating this process.
A while ago I wrote a blog post on html5, and afterwards I decided to re-code my existing homepage to be html5 compliant, and now it is! Helpfully the guys at W3C have added validation for html5, albeit experimental, but it does the trick.
I’ve tested it on Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8, Firefox 3.5.5, Safari 4.0.3, Opera 10.10 and Google Chrome, and all seems to work fine.
Of course this blog is not html5 compliant, since it’s WordPress and the theme itself isn’t coded in html5, but that may change in the future should I get the time.
The Background
Recently I was faced with the task of taking some existing VB.NET code and converting it to C#. Not so difficult so far you’ll say, and you’d be right. However, some of the code on this particular page was contained within a User Control which contained two lists of check boxes in two different categories, which for each category, when a check box item was clicked, was transferred via JavaScript to another (text) list for that category and the selected checkbox removed from the appropriate checkbox list.
Like all web developers, I need to test how my pages look in different browsers. Doing this on Firefox, Safari, Opera and the whatever version of Internet Explorer you happen to have on your machine is easy, as they all happily run alongside each other on the same machine.
But what about the different flavours of Internet Explorer (IE)?
I was browsing through last month’s issue of .net magazine when I came across an article by Remy Sharp about HTML5. I must admit that I was a bit out of the loop with regards to this new version of HTML5 and where it was at, and the reality surprised me.
As you probably know, when I redesigned iandevlin.com it was inspired by an article I read in .net magazine about business card websites.
Today I found a showcase of some fantastic sites that follow this design. There are some truly wonderful site designs there, well worth a look!