Brothercake

learning not to fly

Brothercake is a professional web-developer based in the UK, specialising in client-side programming, with a strong focus on accessibility and standards-based development.

This website is a portfolio for my work, and a collection of useful resources including scripts, games and articles. There's also some hobbies and personal stuff, and occasionally I rant and give vent to something or other.

Latest news and stuff

New updates to my Firefox Add-ons
3rd July 2009

“With the recent release of Firefox 3.5, I'm very pleased to announce the release of updates to both my add-ons: Dust-Me Selectors, and CodeBurner for Firebug. Dust-Me Selectors in particular benefits from this browser update — thanks to improvements in Firefox's JavaScript engine, it now performs significantly faster, with a typical "find..." operation around 50% quicker than in Firefox 3.0!”

Finished at last! Docking boxes Version 3.0
26th March 2009

“Docking boxes (dbx) adds animated drag 'n' drop, snap-to-grid, and show/hide-contents functionality to any group of elements. And how could I resist re-creating one of the most iconic interfaces of modern times to show it off! The script can work with rows, columns, or two-dimensional grids of objects, of any size and shape. And as you've come to expect from brothercake, all the functionality is fully accessible to the keyboard...”

FireScope CodeBurner Version 1.1
22nd March 2009

“A new version of the SitePoint Reference Tool for Firebug, formerly known as FireScope and now called CodeBurner, has been released. [We were forced to change the name for legal reasons.] With added support for Firebug 1.4 and a range of other improvements, CodeBurner is an indispensable tool for web developers who write HTML and CSS.”

brothercake's updated and spruced-up portfolio
3rd February 2009

“Over and above the day-to-day work of developing and building the web, comes the complementary work that reflects upon it — writing, educating, and building tools to help other developers. So rather than just show you site after site that I've built, the rest of this section showcases some of my work in these wider areas. Hopefully to give you a better sense of the ideas and principles behind the work I do, as much as information about the work itself...”

The JavaScript Ultimate Reference
1st February 2009

“The JavaScript Ultimate Reference is an ongoing project to create the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference for JavaScript programming, anywhere on the web or in print, a complement to the already-published HTML Reference and CSS Reference. The first release of JavaScript material happened this week, with the publication of the DOM Core Reference. This section covers all the objects, properties and methods defined in DOM 1 and DOM 2...”

Blog posts at SitePoint

10 Cool Things We'll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead [14/4]

...by my estimation, the day is approximately 12 months away when we'll be able to kiss a fond goodbye to IE6 support forever. And when that day comes, here are some useful things we'll be able to do that we couldn't really do on mainstream sites before...

The right way to make a dropdown menu [1/4]

There's been a great deal of talk on SitePoint over the last few days about dropdown menus — much of it questionable, ambiguous, or just plain wrong — so I felt the need to chip-in and set the record straight on matters of best-practise...

Techy Treasures #5: Fudging CSS Counters in Internet Explorer [31/3]

A problem with the wider uptake of CSS Counters is that they're not supported in Internet Explorer. However, by using a proprietary feature of IE's CSS implementation, we can in fact implement counters after all...

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