In the far, far distant future, like maybe by the year 2010, apparently watches will be able to tell their owners when the next bus will arrive… Delusional crazy-talk, if you ask me… New offering from the lads at ClearLeft, … Continue reading
Category Archives: web development
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For you designy-types out there, the Vintage Ad Browser is pretty fun to scroll through. The About page claims they are all real ads from days gone by, so, I guess they are… Also quite entertaining is the Cover Browser… … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
A true hodge-podge today! From the legend Paul Irish, comes what some may consider a rather boring subject, but when I find I can squeak anything more from my user’s processors, I’m all-in! Check this for loop: for (var i … Continue reading
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It’s nearly the holiday season, and what better gift to give your website visitors than sprucing things up with, what else, @font-face?! Jonathon Snook comes across a really great technique for trimming the fat from font files and avoiding FOUT! … Continue reading
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I recently read a post from Nicholas C. Zakas about the pitfalls of using empty <img> tags in your HTML. Essentially, when most of the world’s favorite browsers (Opera and Firefox 3.5+ excluded) encounter a tag like <img src=”” >, … Continue reading
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Still one of my favorite sites to look at, and easily one of the best examples of progressive CSS enhancements, 24Ways offers a really nice summation of where @font-face is right now, what you can expect from the various browsers, … Continue reading
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A few quick articles from or about “something Google”… First of all, with the recent death of GeoCities, it surprised me to stumble across a Post that mentioned Google Sites. I somehow was not aware they offered this service! And … Continue reading
Google’s “Browser Size”: What Does it Really Tell You?
Check out these couple links before proceeding: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/browser-size-tool-to-see-how-others.html http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/ http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/12/introducing-google-browser-size.html For those that skipped right past the above links, to summarize: a couple lads at Google, in their 20% time, have created a system that tracked the browser window size … Continue reading
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A couple good reads from Ajaxian recently on new Google features: Speed Tracer: Google announces new tools and more thanks to the GWT team A busy Chrome week: Extensions, Web Sockets, and more This post seemed intriguing, until I actually … Continue reading
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By a show of hands, how many of you make wireframes for your new client sites? Okay, good. Now, those of you that do, how do you share those wireframes with your clients? Do you save them as PDFs and … Continue reading