Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category
Friday, June 12th, 2009
There is a proposal to introduce a new <nsfw> element into the HTML5 spec. The idea is to flag potentially censorable content that might get you fired or otherwise offend your fair-hearted co-workers, I suppose.
I am uncomfortable with the idea of baking in a self-censorship construct, or any kind of ...
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
When @malarkey asked if RGBa worked with -webkit gradients, my own curiosity couldn't resist a quick and fugly test to see. Yes indeed, it works:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Gradient Test</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
body {
background-color: green;
}
div {
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(rgba(50,50,50,0.8)), to(rgba(80,80,80,0.2)), color-stop(.5,#333333));
width:80%;
height:5em;
margin:0 auto;
padding:1em;
text-align:center;
color:white;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>Hello World!</div>
</body>
</html>
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
IE continues it's downward spiral as the browser dips below 69% at the expense of Firefox and the WebKit-powered duo of Apple Safari and Google Chrome. The breakdown as paraphrased by TG Daily:
Net Applications released updated global browser market share numbers today, indicating that IE is losing users at an ...
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Sunday, December 28th, 2008
This evening as I was doing some research on mobile web development, I got myself on a tear about the wild differences we face as web developers regarding screen sizes and default browser installations, and came up with this:
MakeModelResolutionDefault Browser Engine*
AmazonKindle600 x 800NetFront
AppleiPhone480 x 320WebKit
AppleiPod Touch480 x 320WebKit
BenQM315128 x 128Opera
HTCG1320 ...
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
As I was working through some documentation on styling CSS for print recently, I came across an oddity. Colors that I was specifying in my print styles were not getting represented properly at print time. Specify a nice shade of gray for some text? Maybe want to ghost print something ...
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