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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Has anyone noticed the lack of hopping in web development over the past month or so? The industry is usually so active that we can find new stories coming up in our RSS feeds every week. Maybe it’s the feeds I subscribe to, but the stories have been trickling in lately. Maybe we’re all off [...]
Tags: mobile, wai aria
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Web Directions North slides and podcasts now online
Friday, April 18th, 2008
Back in January I went up to Vancouver for the Web Directions North (WDN) conference (notes from day 1 – notes from day 2). It was a great conference and I meet some really cool people, learned a lot, and got to bring a lot of knowledge about where the web is headed (beyond the [...]
Tags: conference, podcasts, wdn08
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Tomorrow’s CSS Today [SitePoint Article]
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I wrote an article for SitePoint called “Tomorrow’s CSS Today: 8 Techniques They Don’t Want You To Know” that got published today. Let me know what you think: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/tomorrows-css-today With ease, Tim Also, I’d like to apologize for not participating in CSS Naked Day this year. With the SitePoint article going live today, I thought [...]
Tags: CSS, publication, sitepoint
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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 [...]
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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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Web Directions North – Vancouver (Day 1)
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
In vancouver at WDN08. Just heard Jeffery Zeldman agree with me on how to get work done. I’m sitting in room 2 right now waiting for Derek Featherstone to talk about Real World Accessibility… should be good, will report back later. DEREK FEATHERSTONE – REAL WORLD ACCESSIBILITY go beyond the section 508 checklist usability issues [...]
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