With all the hubba-baloo circling between Steve Jobs and Adobe, here is an interesting take on the situation, and prediction of the world in which we will soon live and work. Thanks for the forward, Dan. I’ve written before about … Continue reading
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Today’s Readings
A nice CSS3 article from Brothercake showing how to (subtlety) apply text-shadow for a slightly embossed effect. Now, note, I am not talking about the old-school drop shadow we all hate, that looks like your browser is having a seizure. … Continue reading
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If you’re a web developer, I can just about guarantee that you use Firefox to do your business, am I right? But I’ll also guarantee that you’ve started getting sick of it too, right? It has gotten soooooooo sssllloooowwwww lately… … Continue reading
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The code from Ted Littledale‘s iAd Carousel Navigation makes it seem… not that hard… Of course, his carousel is intended for an iDevice, but this makes me wonder how hard it would be do something similar for a standard webpage… … Continue reading
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Want to get away? The most remote places on Earth… I’ve said it before, and I’ll surely say again about Paul Irish: you are a mad man! He and Divya Manian have created another HTML5/CSS5 “readiness” site, but this time … Continue reading
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Not sure that I’ve ever encountered an Inspection in Firebug that I felt wasn’t accurate, but Brothercake has an Inspector that he claims is better. Okay. Debugging and Closures and Modules, oh my! I love to trip across something that … Continue reading
Browser Wars, The Sequel (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love HTML)
Imagine if you will… The meeting is over, you have your new design that needs to be built, and now you sit at your whiteboard to plan your strategy. First, we need an HTML version for the Web. That’s easy. … Continue reading
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Designers: Contrast is king! Okay, maybe that sounds a little overzealous, but read the article, and check-out some of the tools they link to. Really good stuff! Beyond the obvious (colors should contrast enough to make things pop, but not … Continue reading
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So, I think everyone wants to use <video>, right? But there are obvious challenges (like some browsers don’t support it, no browsers support all of the control features, and developers cannot reliably affect the appearance of the the player and … Continue reading
The Continuing Task of Website Accessibility
I try to think about Accessibility as much as possible. Okay, not just “think about” it, but actually “be conscious” of it, as in “actually implement” it, as much as I know how. So, sitting in an Accessibility session at … Continue reading