CodeBitch’s Dummy Spits
CodeBitch is currently on sabbatical. Her column will return in 2004.
2003
- OmniWeb is dead – long live OmniWeb – 25 August
- It’s the World Wide Web – 11 August
- The Invisible Hand-coder – 28 July
- I am not a MIME artist – 14 July
- Charting your Safari – 30 June
- The power of three – 16 June
- How much do you love tabbed browsing really? – 2 June
- Redesign with a little help from my friends – 19 May
- Everybody else is doing it, so why can’t IE? – 5 May
- The promise of Omni-potence – 21 April
- Crash as crash can – 7 April
- We’re all banking on a better trip – 24 March
- Are your readers human? – 10 March
- Fat ladies singing from a plain-text libretto – 24 February
- Styling boxes, pushing envelopes – 10 February
- The evolving browser ecosystem – 27 January
- CodeBitch Extra: CodeBitch is on Safari – 14 January
- What has been and what is to come – 6 January
2002
- Spotting, swatting and not-ing – 16 December
- All hand(held)s on deck – 2 December
- The one bug the Omni Group must not fix – 18 November
- Easy as falling off a blog – 4 November
- Wired has upped the ante, but Mac-only browsers still can’t deal – 21 October
- This Cab needs training wheels – 7 October
- Tracking Gecko tales – 23 September
- Exhausted by sniffing – 9 September
- We had font, font, font ’til Billy took Verdana aw-a-a-y – 26 August
- The nuts and BOLTS of technical markup – 12 August
- Quartz anti-aliasing: Jaggies be gone! but at what price? – 30 July (guest columnist Matt McIrvin)
- My favorite things – 15 July
- It’s your own damn default – 1 July
- OmniWeb – are we there yet? – 17 June
- The end of the one-browser Web – 3 June
- Straining against the harness – 20 May
- The Brain Upgrade Initiative – 6 May
- Internet Explorer is the girl next door – 22 April
- The right side of the road – 8 April
- Labelling it for what it is – 25 March
- CodeBitch in the Briar Patch – 11 March
- Tuning the tables – 25 February
- Seeking the machine that goes “PNG!!” – 11 February
- You need to be a tester – 28 January
- Nobody likes a fibber – 14 January
2001
- 2001: A Browser Odyssey – 31 December
- All about compromise – 17 December
- Bad Slash: SlashCode cutters don’t know HTML? – 3 December
- Regression Black and Blues – 19 November
- Leading from the front – 5 November
- The Web IS Print! – 22 October
- No more fuzzy math – 8 October
- In Praise of PDF – 24 September
- Prepare to get WAPped – 10 September
- Netscape’s baaa-aack – 27 August
- Your secretary wants Web standards too – 13 August
- Pushing my buttons – 30 July
- Color me annoyed: OmniWeb’s blind to the consequences of its failings – 16 July
- HTML: The “M” is for memo – 2 July
- Valid Attitude – 18 June
- Fixed layouts doomed to fail – 4 June
- Why I bitch – 21 May
- The minor browsers grow up – 7 May
- Boxing IE6 – 24 April
- The promise of style – 9 April
- Trawling the logs – 26 March
- Wanted: compass and sextant – 12 March
- Getting Serious about Web Standards – 26 February
- CodeBitch wants a bigger box of crayons – 19 February
- I say “Pooh” to 2 by 2 by 2 – 5 February
- (Dis)graceful degradation: Don’t support bad (beta) browsers – 22 January
- Internet Time? Or Foot-dragging? – 8 January
2000
- Should Netscape have released Version 6 already? – 11 December
- Crap code, layout headaches: Learning bad habits – 27 November
- Eleven reasons it’s your fault – 13 November
- Turning the Tables – 30 October
- I don’t love IE – 16 October
- Netscape Public Release 3: Swings and Roundabouts – 9 October
- Public Release 2: Should Netscape Still Die? – 26 September
- I like pain, but Web surfers don’t (or, When the Mistress is away, the slaveboy comes out to play) – 24 August
- HTML Should Not Be Hard – 12 July
- Ditch the FONT tag already! – 3 July
- Netscape Must Die! – 31 May
- Netscape Botches our Launch – 25 May
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Also by CodeBitch
- MacEdition Abridged Guide to
CSS2 Support (updated 5 June 2003, covers all current desktop
browsers)
- IE/Windows
- IE/Mac
- MSN for Mac OS X
- Gecko browsers (Mozilla, Camino, Phoenix, Netscape 6 and 7)
- Safari/ Konqueror / OmniWeb 4.5
- early OmniWeb version
- Opera 7
- iCab
- MacEdition Guide to CSS2 Support in Mac-only Browsers (Safari, OmniWeb, iCab)
- MacEdition Guide to CSS3 Selector Support (all browsers covered in the abridged guide except for early OmniWeb versions)
- MacEdition Guide to CSS Bugs in IE5.x/Mac
- MacEdition Guide to CSS Bugs in IMSN for Mac OS X
- MacEdition Guide to CSS Support for Tables
- Simple CSS test pages
- Netscape 4 crash list
- Interview with CodeBitch at Lemurzone’s pixelview
CodeBitch is the grumpy cow who does the HTML production for MacEdition. You may contact CodeBitch at codebitch@macedition.com