December 2010
WatchA lovely powder video (via Mark B).
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past...”
– Marcel Pagnol (via kari-shma).
WatchChris Akrigg riding cross country (via @csswizardry). Every time I watch one of Danny Mac’s videos I’m blown away. Chris Akrigg is just as good.
“As you might know, HTML5 introduced many exciting features for Web developers....”
– Colorzilla’s Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator is a great little tool, but this paragraph is complete and utter rubbish. Yes, HTML5 “introduced many exciting features”, but CSS3 gradients are not among them. CSS is not the same thing as HTML.
Yes I’m being pedantic, but...
“Once you overload the user, you train them not to pay attention. More clutter...”
– Seth’s Godin: The inevitable decline due to clutter.
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Ampersands in email addresses
We just ran into an interesting little issue. A colleague needed to write an HTML link to an email address which contains an & symbol. No problem, or so you’d think:
<a href="mailto:foo&bar@example.com">Email us!</a>
That appears to work fine, but when I clicked the link Outlook truncated the email address at the ampersand. Encoding it as & didn’t work...
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