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James Edwards

James Edwards James (aka brothercake) is a front-end developer based in the UK, specializing in advanced JavaScript programming and accessible web site development. He is an outspoken advocate of standards-based development, and contributing author to SitePoint's The Art & Science of JavaScript.

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James Edwards has written 8 articles for SitePoint with an average reader rating of 8.7.

All articles written by James

10 Things They Never Tell You In Firefox Extension School	22-Sep-2009
Multi-threading in JavaScript	24-Oct-2008 rating: 9.2
HTML or XHTML: Does it Really Matter?	09-Jul-2008 rating: 8.5
Beyond CAPTCHA: No Bots Allowed!	31-May-2008 rating: 8.2
The Art and Science of JavaScript	16-Jan-2008 rating: 8.2
Accessible JavaScript: Beyond the Mouse	13-Dec-2006 rating: 8.9
Ajax and Screenreaders: When Can it Work?	05-May-2006 rating: 9.1
Beat Any Website into Shape with Greasemonkey	07-Sep-2005 rating: 7.2

All blog posts from James

The CodeBurner Family Welcomes Three New Babies!	20-Oct-2009
Who's Using ARIA?	16-Sep-2009
HTML 4 Considered Harmful	31-Jul-2009
Announcing Updates to our Popular Add-ons for Firefox 3.5	02-Jul-2009
10 Cool Things We'll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead	14-Apr-2009
The Right Way to Make a Dropdown Menu	01-Apr-2009
Techy Treasures #5: Fudging CSS Counters in Internet Explorer	31-Mar-2009
Announcing Version 1.1 of CodeBurner: the Reference Tool for Firebug	20-Mar-2009
Developing CodeBurner — An Exercise in Exploratory Programming	28-Jan-2009
Introducing CodeBurner: the SitePoint HTML & CSS Reference Tool for Firebug	27-Jan-2009
Techy Treasures #4: What's inside a dollar function?	10-Dec-2008
Techy Treasures #3: When is a mouseout not a mouseout?	25-Nov-2008
Techy Treasures #1: Feelin' Empty	16-Oct-2008
Tagging is Not Just for Content	29-Aug-2008
Debugging JavaScript: Throw Away Your Alerts!	22-Aug-2008
Using JSON for Language-independent Configuration Files	21-Aug-2008
Regex Matching Attribute Selectors	29-Jul-2008
Mangling XML as Text with PHP DOM	24-Jul-2008
Conditional Comments for HTML Email	18-Jul-2008
Top 5 Tips for Staying Awake	04-Jul-2008
BBC Rejects hCalendar Microformat Because Of Accessibility Concerns	25-Jun-2008
Dust-Me Selectors: Now Compatible With Firefox 3!	24-Jun-2008
Thanks for what?	20-May-2008
Building The Matrix - Notes from The Architect	14-May-2008
You can stick your em-dash up your dot dot dot	30-Apr-2008
You guys all suck	21-Apr-2008
You're Fat and I Hate You	17-Apr-2008
continue - the forgotten statement	14-Apr-2008
A collection is not an array	19-Mar-2008
Unblocking Adblock	05-Feb-2008
The Accessible Dungeon of Doom	16-Jan-2008
Internet Explorer doesn't just suck, it also blows!	30-Nov-2007
Dust-Me Selectors Version 2.0	26-Nov-2007
All in the mind?	22-Nov-2007
Dealing with unqualified HREF values (Part 2)	17-Oct-2007
Why Accessibility? Because It's Our Job!	16-Oct-2007
Comment-Driven Development	10-Oct-2007
How green can you be?	01-Oct-2007
Don't make users take responsibility for our problems	10-Sep-2007
Nihilism, accessibility, and the preponderence of amazing co-incidences	13-Aug-2007
Dealing with unqualified HREF values	10-Aug-2007
What is a community?	03-Aug-2007
Find unused CSS selectors with "Dust-Me Selectors"	30-Jul-2007
Insert in place without document.write	11-Jul-2007