Technical
Google Translate strips meta tags
Google Translate is pretty zealous with the head section of web pages when translating full URLs
- Originally published: 25 Aug 2011 in Technical
Highcharts and HTML5: IE’s innerHTML unknown runtime error
Internet Explorer’s hoary old unknown runtime error comes back to haunt me in HTML5
- Originally published: 22 Jul 2011 in Technical
Can Google Mini help you find intranet content easily? Search me…
Problems aplenty getting to grips with the search facilities provided by Google’s Mini appliance.
- Originally published: 13 Oct 2010 in Technical
IE7 only: float bug on elements with italic, background properties
What do you get if you cross a float and an italic in Internet Explorer?
- Originally published: 13 Jul 2009 in Technical
Testing CSS for print media: we need a Print Preview for developers!
How I wish there was an easier way to test CSS intended for the printed page.
- Originally published: 15 Jun 2009 in Technical
Typekit: when will web fonts flow freely?
Better CSS3 implementation in some browsers brings many more typographic choices. But we’re not quite there yet.
- Originally published: 1 Jun 2009 in Technical
RUP for user experience professionals
RUP may answer a lot of organisational issues but what’s in it for User Experience professionals?
- Originally published: 13 Apr 2009 in Technical
Progressive enhancement and Flash: no longer a pact with the Devil
Using xHTML as an accessible data source for Flash objects just got a bit easier thanks to Faust.
- Originally published: 17 Feb 2009 in Technical
jQuery .html() returns strange results in IE after other bindings
Sometimes we’re stuck with junk attributes in jQuery.html() for Internet Explorer.
- Originally published: 17 Feb 2009 in Technical
Belgium Usability Day
I attended an event marking the Belgian contribution to World Usability Day 2008.
- Originally published: 14 Nov 2008 in Technical
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Ninglinspo
Following a bewitching, unpronounceable little river as it flows down a narrow, rocky valley in the Ardennes.
- Originally published: 26 Oct 2010 in Walking
Abbaye des Rocs Brune
4/5. Looking almost like a red wine, intense and complex aroma is intense. Dry taste with only very slight bitterness and packed with caramel.
- Originally published: 1 Jan 2010 in Beer
Early days in Brussels
We’ve been to Brussels before, of course, but this time we’re not leaving again after a couple of days!
- Originally published: 16 Jun 2008 in Relocation
Berlin
Living without walls: the city of Berlin thrives on its differences.
- Originally published: 30 Mar 2009 in Europe
Introducing the Fashtonometer
A visual approach to the many fashion gaffes of Lady Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign affairs head.
- Originally published: 10 Mar 2010 in Humour
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.