Author Archives: Drew

Droid Rooted, here’s my take.

By Drew | Published: December 8, 2009
Before you root, you should probably upgrade to 2.01, as that will ‘break’ your new root access. You can get that download from here, if you have not already received it OTA (Over the Air). You need to follow the directions below, to apply the 2.01. The directions for each download it exactly the same, [...]
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Bulletproof @font-face

By Drew | Published: December 7, 2009
There is quite an interesting discussion going on at Jeffrey Zeldman’s blog concerning the @font-face syntax and how to make sure that it is working in all browsers. It’s interesting to see the different ‘hacks’ that are being put together for something that should be hashed out to work well in all major browsers. Why [...]
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Usability and a Simple JavaScript hovering menu

By Drew | Published: December 5, 2009
Many web developers ask ‘what is usability?’.  This is one of those topics that I can explain, but it may be easier to demonstrate. My this experiences have led to some principles; one of them is that if I’m going to build it, it must be usable.   Unfortunately, many sites that I like, that tout [...]
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Scribd and Slide mode : Why is my height wrong?

By Drew | Published: July 29, 2009
While recently using Scribd‘s services, I came across a very nasty bug, and a nice clean fix.  Scribd allows developers to tap into a great, but somewhat basic API.  One of these settings allows a developer to set a default ‘mode’ before the API then builds the flash calls necessary to display the document.  The [...]
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