Assorted GARbage

Regardless of your personal feelings towards Internet Explorer, as a web professional you know that you have to test your creations in several versions of IE. Of course, that also means that you ...

http://blog.assortedgarbage.com/2013/05/internet-explorers-browser-mode-vs-document-mode/

15 years. Yep, that’s a long time. In fact, it’s so long that it’s hard to remember “not” working for Adobe. But as of May 4th, I will be leaving the “big red A” to set off on a new...

http://blog.assortedgarbage.com/2012/04/making-awesomeness/

When my wife, Stephanie Rewis, decided to leave the gun-for-hire world and join a start-up, she was immediately faced with a decision on which CSS preprocessor to use – Sass or Less. And compou...

http://blog.assortedgarbage.com/2012/03/using-dreamweaver-with-sass-and-less/

As anyone who has worked in the front-end dev world knows, keeping up with the “new” stuff is challenging. Thankfully, the browser makers have provided vendor prefixes which allow us to use a...

http://blog.assortedgarbage.com/2011/12/change-happens/

On a recent project, I spent the better part of an hour (okay, maybe longer) fighting with what I would learn is an interesting anomaly in the way that Firefox (4 and 5) deal with CSS3 shorthand ...

http://blog.assortedgarbage.com/2011/08/the-importance-of-s-in-css3-transition-shorthand/

I’ve just spent the weekend getting my new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 all setup – which included downloading a couple of browsers. I’ve been using the Dolphin browser on my Android phones for ...

http://blog.assortedgarbage.com/2011/07/honeycomb-tip-changing-the-browsers-user-agent-string/

I will be the first to admit that I rarely think about validating my pages while I work. Okay, sometimes I don’t validate at all. I know I should, but I can usually come up with a good excuse f...

http://blog.assortedgarbage.com/2011/06/new-dreamweaver-feature-w3c-validator-integration/

One of the coolest things about the development of CSS3 is all of the experimental sites and online tools being created to help us all learn the new syntax, properties, etc. There are literally t...

http://blog.assortedgarbage.com/2011/05/using-online-css3-tools-in-dw/

One of the biggest problems with linking to anything on the web is when the address of that file changes. Sadly, this happened recently with a file that was used by Dreamweaver CS5.5 to install t...

http://blog.assortedgarbage.com/2011/05/resolving-android-sdk-failed-to-install-with-dreamweaver-cs5-5/

Holy Javascript Libraries, Batman! In case you’re keeping score, Adobe began shipping Dreamweaver CS5.5 less than two weeks ago with support for jQuery and jQuery Mobile. But, the versions incl...

http://blog.assortedgarbage.com/2011/05/updating-jquery-in-dreamweaver-cs5-5/