[UPDATE: panic over. Let's just call it user error/stupidity and assume that they won't be naming a bug after me.]
I’m currently developing a site that uses a very common technique of tiling a background image on the body tag in css.
I tested the site in Safari 3.1 for Windows and the image would not [...]
IE8 Beta 1 was released to the general public yesterday and here are my first impressions and quick review. I’ve installed it and taken it for a quick whistle-stop tour of the web. It’s stable, it’s a great improvement, but one caveat though, it’s only really intended for developers and designers at this stage, so [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Safari 3 has recently become a first class citizen in the world of WYSIWYG Rich Text Editors. Until recently, the majority of Rich Text Editors didn’t support Safari so if you were using a content management system or blogging software to edit your content online then Safari would usually default to a plain old text [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I’ve been putting together an article about why web browsers are so important for publication on another web site and it’s really made me think about the implications of AIR for the web.
The web is all about content, right? And to access the content we need to start somewhere. A search engine, a bookmark, a [...]
This week’s recommendation is very small and compact just like the software it describes. It’s a graphics optimiser and converter for windows called PNGOptimizer and as its name suggests one of it’s main functions is to optimise PNG graphics.
PNG is a very high quality format for graphics which has become more common on the web [...]
I was in the UK over the Christmas period visiting family and had my annual reminder of what technology is like in the real world. Just before Christmas there had been a lot of buzz in the web community about IE8 passing the ACID2 test and the forthcoming release of Firefox 3. It’s easy to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The vast majority of people have probably never heard of open document formats. That’s not a bad thing. Generally, people should concentrate on what they create, not how they create. But most of us should be concerned about who can access what we create. Whether it’s for commercial reasons or for promoting our ideas, we [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )For those of use that watch browsers, and that should be every web developer and designer, it’s been quite a week.
The Microsoft IE team today announced that their work in progress, IE8, passed the ACID2 test last week. Not only that, it’ll be out in Beta in the first half of 2008.
So let’s have [...]
Browser maker Opera, filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft on Wednesday. The complaint concerns the unbundling of Internet Explorer from the Windows operating system and forcing Microsoft to make their browsers standards-compliant.
“Opera requests the Commission to implement two remedies to Microsoft’s abusive actions. First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft [...]
[UPDATE: Naked day is over and the site is back to normal, but I thought I'd leave this article here anyway.]
This Thursday we’re joining thousands of others web designers and stripping our site back to the basics and exposing our soft under belly! What’s it all about I hear you ask? Isn’t web design [...]
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