Archive for February, 2008
The Slow Death of IE6
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
So, I’m a front end developer at NC State University in DELTA (essentially distance education) and we use a learning management system (LMS) called Blackboard, you may be familiar with it. It used to be called WebCT, then it was WebCT Vista, then Blackboard bought it out and I think the official name is “Blackboard [...]
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Reseting Browser Defaults (reset.css)
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
I’ve heard a lot of arguments for and against the CSS reset file and most recently had a short conversation with Jonathan Snook about it. He’s seemed to be avidly against the use of a reset file due to the extra code you need to make it happen. As a CSS person, I like dumping [...]
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CSS Gradient Text
Monday, February 4th, 2008
CSS Gradient Text demo It’s been a really long time since I’ve seen someone do a CSS technique and said “wow, that’s actually really cool”. I was hanging out at David Shea’s Mezzoblue today, and in the sidebar was a link to an article called “CSS Gradient Text”. I thought to myself, “great, another stupid [...]
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Web Directions North – Vancouver (Day 2)
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
It’s the end of day 2 up in Vancouver at WDN08, another really great day, some good talks. The Keynote Matt Webb was really interesting, looking forward to the podcast. Anyway, here are my notes from day 2: CAMERON ADAMS – THE FUTURE OF WEB-BASED INTERFACES dynamic interfaces you can’t make design that’s perfect for [...]
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