Finding Good Client Web Developers is Hard Today I had a meeting at a customer. One of the things that we talked about was the difficulty in finding good web developers. To be more accurate, the difficulty in finding good client web developers! Since I have lots of experience in interviewing candidates, I really understand that guy's problem. He published his company’s job requirements and seek for an experienced client web developer and all the candidates that he interviewed so far didn’t know...
Detecting HTML5 Features Using Modernizr In the past I wrote a post about using feature detection instead of browser detection when writing web applications/sites. There are frameworks like jQuery that do that for you and all you have to do is to use them. There are other frameworks like Modernizr that are specializing in testing the current browser you use in order to detect whether it supports upcoming features such as HTML5 or CSS3 . What is Modernizr? Taken from Modernizr site: “ Modernizr is...
Feature Detection for Better Compatibility in Web Development One of the things I talked about in the session I had about what’s new in IE9 for web developers was how to make your web site/application more compatible. In this post I’ll try to give the highlights from the session. Same Markup When we develop web sites/applications we need to strive to use features that give us the same markup in every browser. When we know about a feature that is compatible in every browser we can use it without any...