Kier Darby

The Facebook Like  button is ever more prevalent, with countless uses all over the web, but many site administrators will want to control the way that 'Likes' for their sites appear on users' news feeds, in particular by specifying their own logo or graphic to accompany the story. In order to do this, Facebook requires that the 'Liked' page participate in the Open Graph , so that an Open Graph image can be specified. This is a relatively straight-forward affair, involving the addition of a collection of <meta> tags defining og: properties (which, annoyingly don't validate as compliant HTML, but that's another story), but there is one requirement that appears  to have been added after the initial roll-out, as pages that omitted it worked before and then suddenly stopped working. That requirement is for the specification of fb:app_id or fb:admins in order to provide administrative authority for your pages within the Open Graph. While fb:app_id (A...

For the most part I play badminton with bare feet. This may draw gasps of horror from some players, who question whether I end up with blisters and burns and twisted ankles, but I have never had any of those things. In fact, the last time I put my badminton shoes on, I quickly ended up with a sprained ankle due to the higher centre of gravity and less-stable platform provided by padded footwear. At the risk of stating the obvious, playing badminton barefoot is not the same as playing with shoes. It's not possible to simply plant a foot and rely on the mechanical grip of the sole to begin a change of direction. It's also imperative to keep legs flexed and weight forward so that contact with the floor is primarily through the forefoot, as landing on, or striking the floor with heels is not to be advised. A light step and swift footwork are required to move effectively around the court. While sliding and heavy landings are precluded, jumping and agility at the net are gre...

Google's new +1 Button normally mandates a somewhat cumbersome <g:plusone> tag, but this tag is not HTML compliant without a custom DTD, and worse, is unselectable by jQuery using normal selectors. Thankfully, they also provide an HTML 5 <div class="g-plusone"> option. While the <g:plusone> tag is configured with 'size' and 'url' attributes, in order to be HTML 5 compliant, the <div> version passes parameters using HTML 5's 'data-' attributes, such as 'data-size' and 'data-url'. Or at least, that's what the documentation says. In actual fact, the HTML 5 version ignores data- attributes, and responds only to normal, non-data attributes. I have put together a test case to illustrate the problem: Test case demonstrating the broken +1 HTML 5 implementation. Hopefully Google will address this quickly. Update, June 14 2011 The test case now renders correctly, indicating that Google has fixe...