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« Older EntriesSXSW Notes pt. 3 – CSS3
Friday, March 20th, 2009
This panel had representitives from each vendor (not apple) and they each took turns showcasing the upcoming CSS3 support in their browser. MOZ nth-child selector color module [opacity, rbga] border-image border-radius box-shadow * word-wrap:break-word * font-adjust @font-face @media queries ( @media(width:22em){blah} -moz-transform: skewX(20deg); -webkit-transform: skewX(20deg); Future from MOZ width calculations new layout systems for user [...]
Tags: CSS, sxsw
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Setting your Apple icon
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Getting your own iPhone app icon is easier than you’d think. I was recently working on a project where the client wanted to make sure that if a user added his site to their iPhone home screen, there would be a pleasing icon. Apple used a lot of forward thinking when they implemented the apple-touch-icon. [...]
Tags: iphone, ipod, mobile
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This Week in Links 9/10
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Evernote Evernote is a program to help you remember things. Think of it like a post-it not that you wear on your forehead all day. Microsoft CSS Vendor Extensions It looks like Microsoft IS actually doing work on IE8, They just beefed up their CSS support. It actually looks pretty promising so far. Looks like [...]
Tags: a list apart, alexa, internet explorer, links, php, seo
Posted in Browsers, News, Web Development, Web Standards | 2 Comments »
Quick iPhone Media Detection
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
I finally got around to reading David Shea’s post on MediaTyping today and as I was going through it, I asked myself if all the PHP he was using was really necessary. It sure wasn’t for what I wanted to do. I just wanted to detect an iPhone or iPod to test out some interfaces. [...]
Tags: firefox, iphone, mobile, php
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Quick note on mobile web design
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Before, you check: no, I haven’t made a handheld style sheet for this site yet, hopefully in the near future. Anyway, I’ve been reading up on some user interface principles in the past few months and have been talking up designing for mobile devices. First, I was looking into Fitts’s Law (I’ve seen it spelled [...]
Tags: CSS, fitts, mobile, usability
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Manipulating Opacity
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Any one who has worked with CSS opacity has, most likely run into this problem. Using: div{ filter:alpha(opacity=60); -moz-opacity:0.60; opacity:0.60; } to make a transparent background. It works great in all browsers, but have you ever tried putting text in that div? Right, it applies the opacity to everything inside the div as well. So [...]
Tags: moz, opacity, tips
Posted in Browsers, Web Development, Web Standards | 4 Comments »
Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Ran into this link today, thought I’d share: Microsoft Standards My thoughts Looks like the IE team created a really complex system to account for all the uproar in the web community. Seems to be a large step in the right direction. Didn’t someone say this would happen? Either way, I still think it’s a [...]
Tags: internet explorer
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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 [...]
Posted in Browsers, Web Development, Web Standards | 8 Comments »
IE8 – Version Targeting
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
The current hot topic in the world of web development is IE8 and its version targeting, Eric Meyer’s article on A List Apart and Aaron Gustafson’s Beyond DOCTYPE. I’ve commenting all over the place about this, so I thought I’d consolidate all the comments into a blog post, and maybe elaborate a little. This is [...]
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