Entries by Scott

Scott Vandehey is probably not a Cylon.

On a recent project where I had to support Firefox 3.6, 3.0 and 2.0, I had to find a way to target a specific version ...


A site I worked on recently had an international link, and when the user clicked on it, the whole page was supposed to slide down ...


jQuery Popup Footnotes

A recent site I worked on had footnote references throughout the body copy, and a corresponding list of footnotes at the bottom of the page. ...


Followers vs Friends

It's always bothered me that most social networking sites only have one level of friendship. You are either someone's friend, or you are not. In ...


The Importance of Terminology

There are certain terms used in the web industry that most people think of as "industry-standard," but are actually used in slightly different ways at ...


In Praise of Specialists

There is a split in the web industry that you might not be aware of. No, I'm not talking about Mac vs. PC. I'm talking ...


New Year, New Job!

In October, after four years at Pop Art, I decided it was time to move on. While I will always miss the incredible people I ...


The following is an email exchange I had with a friend at another company about a year ago. We were talking about the best way ...


If you haven't already, set aside ten minutes to fill out the annual "State of the Web" survey from A List Apart. This kind of ...


Fast Post-Mortems

When it's time for a post-mortem meeting, do people in your office groan and make excuses? Do your coworkers complain that they're too busy with ...


Five iPhone Tips

I recently got an iPhone, and like any good geek, immediately started banging my head against things I didn't know how to do. If you've ...


When I upgraded my Wordpress installation recently, I ran into a chracter encoding problem. Long story short, it turns out that older Wordpress installations like ...


Administrative Note

I've split this site into two, a personal one and a professional one. Spaceninja.com will remain my professional blog, with an emphasis on front-end web ...


Friday will be my last day at Pop Art. I've been working there nearly four years, and deciding to quit was not an easy decision. ...


Long story short, Google released a plugin for IE 6, 7 and 8 that will run Google Chrome (which uses webkit) inside a frame in ...


Just so we're clear, testing your website in an actual copy of IE7, and testing in IE8's Compatibility Mode are not the same thing. Compatibility ...


Frequently, when I see a webpage with superscript or subscript text, I see associated gaps in the paragraph. This is caused because the default way ...


Talk Like Warren Ellis

A few weeks ago, I called my friend Miles and asked him to help me out with the programming on a project I dreamed up. ...


Intelligent Defaults Save Time

Have you ever been a regular at a coffee shop? The barista knows you by name, and every morning when you come by, she's already ...


Key Takeaways from An Event Apart

I've attended An Event Apart four years running now. It is, hands-down, the finest web conference around, and if you work on the web at ...


It's safe to say that no one at Pop Art was ever really happy with Community Server. We selected it as a platform for a ...


When we converted the Pop Art Blog to use Wordpress, I learned some clever tricks that I would like to share with you. If you ...


XHTML 2 is Dead

Wow, I didn't see this coming. Zeldman reports that the W3C is not going to renew the XHTML 2 working group's charter this year. That ...


When we started redesigning the Pop Art blog, one of the chief requirements was to integrate everyone's Twitter feeds into the site. In addition to ...


Frequently, my coworkers will forget their Bugzilla passwords. They come to me, because I manage it, and I always send them to the reset password ...