Archives: Notes

I especially love open-source when I wake up to discover someone else has done the first thing on my todo list. ?

The road to feature detection is paved with the tears of puppies and kittens.

Watching the WP Slack yesterday, it was really sweet to see the core & lead devs excited as the REST API infrastructure was committed.

#NRAfamily never offers practical tips on how to teach a five year-old to play dead during a mass shooting.

Speaking of back in the day, here’s some thoughts on browser support from long ago, s/ie6/ie8+. https://peterwilson.cc/euthenasing-internet-explorer-6/

Thank you for attending this-morning’s session of rants by the mildly frustrated. Problem solved by remembering back to the day.

Like it or not, a web devs job is to support browsers a site’s users need. As is widely said, supporting and optimising for differ.

Stack Overflow is hilarious:
Q: How do I do this in IE8?
A: whywouldyoudothat and dontsupportie8.
#justusejquery

Protip: IE8 can go die in a ditch.

The Audio element fires some odd events. I keep forgetting that I’ve turned off wifi to trigger an error and thinking MDN is down.