January 2008
“You cant hurt steel!”
– Chris Kovarik
“In order to keep IE relevant in the general Web-browsing niche, they desperately...”
– Legacy.
“Here at the Email Standards Project we’re not above borrowing a good idea,...”
– Getting some Gmail attention
“Handwritten, expressively drawn lettering… is perilously close to the...”
– A Brief Message: The Hand is Back
“Please confirm informations bellow.”
– No need to shout!
“2012…New York…Wolff Olins have never been far from controversy over the past 12...”
– CR Blog profile Wolff Olins
“WAVE cannot tell you if your web content is accessible - only a human can...”
– WebAIM: Introducing WAVE 4.0. Looks like a useful tool [via John Oxton]
“The main advantage of CSS over presentational HTML markup is that the styling...”
– Sitepoint’s new CSS Reference
“People may refer to ExpressionEngine as a blogging application, and it’s true...”
– An Introduction to ExpressionEngine
“Is paying 50% more for something acceptable? OK, how about 100% more? Hmm, how...”
– Aral Balkan on geographical pricing.
“This is Microsoft’s browser-war victory biting them in the ass.”
– Mike Davies makes some very good points about the IE8 X-UA-Compatible controversy. The problem isn’t as simple as many people are making out.
“Microsoft can now provide their customers with a ludicrously simple answer to...”
– Jeremy Keith.
“freezing the web to IE7 levels condemns much of it to eternal inaccessibility”
– Bruce Lawson.
“Turns out it was an unexploded 500kg American bomb from World War II. It would...”
– Phil Saxena on unexploded bombs.
That cyberwarfare by Russia on Estonia? It was one... →
“It was the threat from the sleeping giant on the tiny state that showed that cyberwar was now real. Except it wasn’t.”
“But the quick fix could not address another problem: we probably had the worst...”
– Mono’s Usability Disaster Story.
“If those hands had not been forced, no one would have heard about this until IE8...”
– Molly on the IE8 versioning fandango.
The New York City Waterfalls →
Olafur Eliason is installing waterfalls in NYC. The mock-ups for this project look ace. [via Kitsune Noir]
“If you give me non-standard markup, I will render it according to standards.
If...”
– Microsoft koan
The mystery of the resurrection explained... →
Iâm sure thereâll be some sceptics out there who donât agree with this theoryâ¦
“Lemur 9: Dude, check this out. Lemur 10: Dude! Lemur 9: Should we post it? Lemur...”
– X-UA-Lemur-Compatible
The great Internet Explorer 8 controversy →
So, the Internet Explorer team has proposed that as of IE8, if you want the latest and greatest features you’ll have to opt-in. You can do this by way of an http-header, or using a meta-tag:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
I can see understand why they’ve chosen this direction. IE6 was absolutely chock-full of bugs, but was left to stagnate for so long that...
“Crocodile attacks and shootings are rare in Australia. To suffer both at once is...”
– Man saved from croc shot in error. [via Timmah!]
“What’s nice about this new DOCTYPE, especially, is that all current...”
– John Resig
UK homes to get super-fast fibre →
“Fibre firm H20 provides super-fast broadband via the sewers” — I don’t envy them the job of installing it all…
.aspx considered harmful →
“I guess Iâm extra-sensitive to the .aspx thing now that I work for Microsoft, because I know that to folks outside the Microsoft ecosystem it screams: We donât get the web.”
Advances in Web typography →
“…itâll be possible to use SVG fonts not only in SVG content, but also as a standard WebFont format with @font-face”
Macworld: lusting at the NEC booth →
“At Macworld ‘08, NEC showed off a new monitor that is not like anything I’ve ever seen before, the prototypically named CRVD-LMD.” - WANT!
Three tips to protect your WordPress installation →
1. Secure your /wp-admin/ directory. 2. Make an empty wp-content/plugins/index.html file. 3. Subscribe to the WordPress Development blog. Bonus: Delete the Wordpress version meta element.
BBC eyes Apple TV for iPlayer downloads →
I was saying just the other day how I’d like to see this.
More regrettable incidents in a life filled with... →
Lovely. [via Jon Hicks]
Precisely What the Author Had in Mind →
Genius.
HOWTO: iPhone Webclip Icons →
“So: if you want to make a custom icon for your website that will show up in the Springboard when a user makes a ‘webclip’, using their iPhone or iPod Touch, the dirt simple way is…”
he Defining Culture of the Naughties? →
“He suggested that the ‘naughties’ were the decade of the ‘long-tail’. That essentially the democratisation of mass media had led to one big melting-pot of individual cultures rather than a few tightly defined one.”