Can anyone explain to me why an input of type checkbox does not submit when not checked? The only thing I can think off is because someone, somewhere, at the beginning of time thought it would be nicer to have to just check if the parameter is set, instead of checking its actual state. And […]

With the introduction of HTML5 is the introduction of browser support for the <canvas> element. This is an important introduction because unlike the canvas in Flash and other non-HTML web application frameworks, the drawing here can be accomplished via javascript (or potentially another client side scripting language) and is based on the HTML event model.
I’ve […]

Last year I wrote about Google’s lack of web standards compliance with their pages.
Today I noticed a comment on Mark Pilgrim’s site mentioning his DOCTYPE being off. My thought process was (yeah, I’m a geek): “Well he works for Google now, maybe I’ll check Google’s DOCTYPE to see if it’s similar.”
And this I did. The […]