http://www.whatstyle.net/ Articles about web development, design, accessibility and usability en (c) 2006 - Harmen Janssen http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/46/subcookies_v2 Harmen Janssen My Subcookies article from May the 27th of last year has proven to be my most popular bit of writing. A year after publishing, "C" has requested an update. I have now rewritten my cookies script, fixing some issues pointed out by "C", and added some security as pointed out by Jim Thomson. http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/46/subcookies_v2 http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/45/help_the_un_world_food_program_to_end_world_hunger Harmen Janssen The UN World Food Program has created a game to gather food for third-world countries. In the game, you have to guess the correct synonym for an English word. For non-native speakers it can actually be quite challenging and educational. Below every question is a different ad, and that way various advertisers sponsor this initiative. I think it's a great idea and gladly link to it. Apart from being a great new, inventive way of helping others, the game is actually a nice use of modern web technologies like CSS and DOM scripting. Via Grrr http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/45/help_the_un_world_food_program_to_end_world_hunger http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/44/finally_moved_but_not_without_hiccups Harmen Janssen Whatstyle has finally arrived at its new location over at CCC Hosting. Before the move could be completed however, I made an ass out of myself. My @whatstyle.net address was my contact address over at the new host, which was, obviously, momentarily down during the move. Hence, I was unable to receive the email containing the new FTP information and stuff like that, resulting in a couple of days of me having no website nor email address. All is well again, so keep checking back regularly for updates. Also, due to the downtime, my latest article about formatting CSS might have gone unnoticed. Do take a look :) http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/44/finally_moved_but_not_without_hiccups http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/43/formatting_css_how_not_to_do_it Harmen Janssen Every once in a while, I stumble across a piece of CSS and I think, Now that's a handy method of formatting, I'm gonna try that in my next project. One of those formatting styles is nesting your CSS rules according to the nesting level of the HTML elements you target. I've tried it once, but never again. http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/43/formatting_css_how_not_to_do_it http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/42/dutch_internet_works_is_looking_for_freelance_web_designers Harmen Janssen Business is going well, and we at Dutch Internet Works wish to expand our network. http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/42/dutch_internet_works_is_looking_for_freelance_web_designers http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/41/movin Harmen Janssen I'm moving Whatstyle to a new hosting provider, so there might be some downtime in the next couple of days. I'll try and be as quick as possible. For those of you interested: I'm moving to CCC Hosting, a Dutch provider that offers some great functionality in their packages. http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/41/movin http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/40/microsoft_internet_explorer_8_introduces_version_targeting Harmen Janssen Wow. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, seems to be talking about Microsoft's version targeting system, that's to be introduced in IE8. MS sure knows how to stir things up. Here's my take on it. http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/40/microsoft_internet_explorer_8_introduces_version_targeting http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/39/bye_bye_freelancing Harmen Janssen I've been meaning to write this post for a couple of weeks now, but I've deliberately kept my spare time computer-free (well, mostly. You know how that goes). I'm happy to announce, though, that as of the first of December 2007, I've been working for Dutch Internet Works. http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/39/bye_bye_freelancing http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/38/my_css_wishlist Harmen Janssen Everytime I hear a podcast and lots of times when I read a webdev article, people are asked what CSS features they would like to see implemented the most. Now it's my turn. http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/38/my_css_wishlist http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/37/pure_css_text_resizer Harmen Janssen Inspired by comments on Roger Johansson's article about text resizing widgets, I created a text-resizing widget that does not rely on scripting. CSS only! http://www.whatstyle.net/articles/37/pure_css_text_resizer