How to easily clear the window.applicationCache on select browsers

• April 2, 2011
• James Skemp

While I was working on tweaking my video game listing, and creating my offline Web application manager, I kept running into issues with the cache manifest holding onto data much longer than I would have liked. After some research I found that Chrome's interface can easily be found by going to chrome://appcache-internals/. On Safari, on the iPod Touch and iPad, you can stop/close Safari (hold down the home button on the home screen, and close the application) and then start it back up to clear the data.

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HTML5 / LocalStorage Web application manager tool

• April 2, 2011
• James Skemp

As previously mentioned I've been spending a good amount of time looking at HTML5/local storage in my free time. For testing purposes, I ended up putting a number of items within my video games offline application, which is fine, but results in some extraneous information on the page. To clean this up, as well as to allow for additional functionality, I've gone ahead and created a Web application manager for my media.

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Interesting feature with parsing XML with jQuery on Safari

• March 27, 2011
• James Skemp

I've been playing around with HTML5 quite a bit recently, in particular with offline Web applications. My second experiment (my first is on pause) was with making my video games available, so that I can access the listing when I'm out shopping at used game stores. It's still in progress, but you can see my offline listing of video games now. My main intention is to make this available on my iPod Touch, so I was a bit dismayed when I found that the listing didn't display the title of the game.

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Code cleanup and commenting - done right

• June 18, 2006
• James Skemp

For the past hour, I've been looking at current ways to get my name out there for Web page cleanup and commenting. In other words, I'd like to work with existing code to bring it closer to the standards, and comment it, if necessary. I would think it would be of great benefit to those individuals who bought a solution from a vendor, and are looking at changes to that code, or cleanup so that there pages act alike in most browsers. Unfortunately, I haven't found a site to offer my wares. I've also looked at open source projects that may need some free help, but, alas, nothing there either.

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Using a standard template to create a simple Web site

• April 2, 2006
• James Skemp

As stated in a previous article, there's a site, http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/, that offers free templates. Using these templates, you can easily create a site, so long as you have the content you need to fill the pages.

In this article, we'll be putting some content into one of these templates, Layout 34, but we can use the methods we discuss here on any of the templates.

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Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics

• March 29, 2006
• James Skemp

Here's an interesting article out of the Googleplex: Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics.

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'Just enough HTML to be dangerous'

• March 27, 2006
• James Skemp

This time, we'll be covering the minimum HTML knowledge required to be truly dangerous. While an expanded understanding of HTML is not, per se, required, having at least some understanding will help in a number of ways. Of course, the more HTML you know, the less you rely on tools to do the work (which is a good thing, since we're not always able to use the tools that we're familar with).

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Found: 40 free HTML/CSS templates

• March 24, 2006
• James Skemp

Alessandro Fulciniti, along with an unnamed number of people, have create 40 CSS-based templates, free for download, available at http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/. They've got near every possible layout that I can think of, along with a number more. Stick on a stylesheet, and you're golden. The only real problem I see is that navigation items should, according to some sources, come before the main content area. After all if the CSS disappears, then you'll still want navigation to come first.

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Don't use ul when you should use blockquote

• January 2, 2006
• James Skemp

I'm sorry, but I hate it when people use <ul> instead of <blockquote>. <ul> is for list items, and should therefore be composed of list items (<li>s). If you're not going to put <li>s for each item within a <ul> block, don't use <ul>

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Can we blame hosts for their poor HTML editors?

• April 30, 2005
• James Skemp

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