Recent Posts
Firefox 3's Buggy Text Rendering
With the recent release of Firefox 3 I’ve found that the way certain elements are rendered has changed, and in some situations not necessarily for the better. This is obviously due to the new version of the Cairo rendering engine, and no doubt, these changes are all supposed to be improvements (and mostly are). However, I’ve run into one problem with text rendering in some specific situations. Take a look at this:…
JS_Extractor 0.1.1
- Posted
- 8 March 2008
- Tagged
- JS_Extractor, PHP
Just a quick note to let you know I’ve just released a new version of JS_Extractor. This release fixes a bug related to extracting attribute values from elements in a hierarchy…
Ready For Review
- Posted
- 23 February 2008
- Tagged
- PHP, Zend Framework
I’m pleased to announce that the two Zend Framework proposals I’ve been working on, Zend_Color and Zend_Db_Table_Plugin (along with Simon Mundy) are now complete and ready for community and team review. Even if you don’t use the Zend Framework, the Zend_Color component can be used very easily standalone, and is intended to be a replacement for my previous Colour Tools class, so check it out…
JS_Extractor! And the death of Table Extractor
- Posted
- 10 February 2008
- Tagged
- JS_Extractor, PHP
So, it’s been a long time since I wrote (or even looked at) Table Extractor, and almost as soon as I wrote it I knew there were a lot of problems. For a start:…
My HTML 5 Favourites
With the W3C publishing the latest HTML 5 working draft and supporting differences from HTML 4 document, I thought I’d list some of my favourite additions and changes:…