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Sunday, February 29, 2004
- Flash form? NO!
- Speaking of hot, check out these form fields. There're certainly not for http://www.picment.com/articles/css/funwithforms/ any web app, but Søren discusses usability and other considerations in his article Fun with forms - customized input elements.
- Popgrafix Hentai Art
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I've never been a huge fan of pop art, but toss in a little bit of tasteful* hentai and it's actually very nice. I guess if pop art is distilling something down to it's simplest form then adding bright colors if the orignal is a soup can it's fairly lame, but if it is a naked women it's hot.
* not to say I don't like the tenticle stuff, just wouldn't fit here.
Saturday, February 28, 2004
- Intuos2 - The Professional Tablet System
- New item on the wish list. See how the drawing of the wizard's duel cards goes before I think about getting one. I've been in a creative mood lately.
- Styling <abbr> in IE
- These crazy romance readers have their own set of abbreviations which, while they are an almost necessary convenience for those who use them could be intimidating to someone new to the conference. But of course IE only supports the accronym tag, which they really aren't, so I tracked down this workaround. It would be ugly if you had to put in the extra span with a title by hand, but in steps javascript (not the DOM because IE is too gimpy) and we have a solution. I'll apply this solution to the yet un-launched CR2004 website, then maybe here, though the inline markup may be getting a little out of hand what with the typography enhancments and such.
- Apache fix for CSS rollover flicker
- I wonder if I can get Michelle (our server admin) to try out this fix? It would be nice to kill the problem at it's source rather than severely restrict my CSS just for fellow web developers who should be browsing using Moz anyway.
Friday, February 27, 2004
- Minimizing Flickering CSS Background Images in IE6
- First reaction: this is bullshit! Second reaction: I don't fucking care. Third reaction: Everybody and their mother uses IE, I don't have much of a choice but to try and fix it. Fourth reaction: the people that have changed their temporary internet settings so that this bug occurs are more technical than their mothers, so if they haven't changed their settings back to default they can just deal.
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
- IE Escaping Floats Bug
- Items floated within a container that has a border escape that border and run amuck. On a roll here, think I can hit them all?
- Peek-a-boo IE6 Bug
- "A liquid box has a float inside, and content that appears along side that float." - just hit this one with the CR site. Luckily assiging the box a line-height fixes it, and since I'm shooting for a baseline grid with this design I will definitely be doing that.
- Design by Fire: Design Matters
- "Good design is always about usability. If something is not usable, it is also not well-designed. Good design is always about legibility. If it can't be read, it is not good design." Not that Design by Fire is necessarily the best example of this, in my oppinion the line length is too long for the font size, but he has a number of excellent points. If people like Jakob Nielson would read books like the Elements of Typography and speak to designers in their own language the web would be a better place.
- Yahoo Keyword Density Analysis Comparison to Google
- Bold? Why dear god why would the text that you have made bold be more important than say your H fucking 2's? And please don't tell me they're counting <b> tags. If that's the case then I'm going back through advancingbiosurgery.com and wrapping bold tags around the keywords then setting them to font-weight: normal;
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
- Photoshop 7 Shortcuts Tutorial
- For all those key commands that aren't necessarily in the menus.
- Translated version of http://www.enigmyster.com/pa.php
- Google translation of a French riddle/puzzle(?) site's accessibility statement. I don't know which is more fun, reading the garbled translation of the accessibility features and browser support, or trying to read the French.
Monday, February 23, 2004
- Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 - 2004
- Webmonkey was where I got my start learning this stuff. My question now is who will step in to their role of teaching this stuff from scratch? Hopefully not just their archives, they are getting stale. HTML Dog covers XHTML and CSS from the ground up, though not necessarily in the same order an over-hasty beginner wants to learn to design a web page. Who is teaching DOM Scripting to beginners? I'm ignoring of course all the stuff that lies outside of my specialty, which is most things really.
- Remedial JavaScript
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The shoulders upon which we stand. Here are a few of the function names:
- isUndefined(a)
- entityify()
- pop()
- push(a...)
- shift()
- Miss Kitty's Parlour
- Nice to see that Miss Kitty's is available at work.
Saturday, February 21, 2004
- mozdev.org - googlebar: feedback
- Note to self to figure out how to do this. "This", in case that obscenely long page doesn't load, being to add imdb.com and maybe acronymfinder.com searches to mozilla's google toolbar.
- Things that are the new black
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Since this link is just to a page with a bunch of links on the theme of "the new black" I might as well link to some of the highlights:
- "The threat level remains at gray."
- Horror flicks - Why blood is the new black
- "I know anal sex is the new black, because my bloody mother just rang to talk about it."
- Minimalism is the new black, which is all well and good for corporate design, but I'd really like to see more texture, color, and just more life in people's personal work. I guess a lot of that has to do with not separating the professional portfolio from the personal site forcing the look and feel of one's weblog to sell itself to potential clients / employers.
- Duct tape accessories are the new black. I met my best friend from middle school when he was visiting Hampshire for an ultimate frisbee tournament. He had made his wallet out of duct tape. Not some elongated pouch folded in half, but a fully articulated functional wallet. I had made my wallet (that I still use) out of leather.
- Pirates are the new black. This one's for Cybil.
- Outsourcing is the New Black Fuck this. I really hope that the law goes into effect taxing the import of intellectual property making it more expensive to send all your code work to India. Quality of product is the most important thing to me, so I believe that if there is enough work to merit it the best thing for a company to do is to have an in house team that really understands the needs of the company and is held fucking accountable if they do shit work. Of course if your in house team is your secretary using frontpage then by all means outsource away. I guess the bottom line is quality, and there is just an awful lot of shit work being done and a lot of it is outsourced without the vendor being held accountable for their inaptitude. That's what gets me all riled up.
Friday, February 20, 2004
- Helping Your Visitors: a State of Mind: A List Apart
- Note to self: TBR
- Digital Web Magazine - Keep It Simple: Accessibility and usability
- Note to self: TBR
Thursday, February 19, 2004
- Seven Illustrated Principles of Highly Informative Color
- Visibone card style, very cool.
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
- News about Ender's Game: The Movie
- The only danger here is expectations being too high. X-Men men had an awesome script. Well rounded characters and action all focused around the story. Since Card already wrote a first draft the writers will know what is most important to the story. It could be a phenomenal movie.
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
- THE MEATRIX
- Between the problems this Flash animations points out and mad cow disease, wouldn't it be nice to be able to afford organically grown dead animal flesh?
Monday, February 16, 2004
- Stylish Scripting : Line endings in Javascript
- Regular expressions. JavaScript functions. Browser quirks. What more could you ask for from a blog post?
- Albino Catfish
- I saw this sticker on someone's car. How fucking cool is that logo?
Saturday, February 14, 2004
Friday, February 13, 2004
- Conditional Comments
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An alert reader pointed out that conditional comments don't work correctly when you have multiple Explorers installed on one computer.
I took this opportunity to declare the use of conditional comments safe. I wrote a new page about them and I implemented one in the top frame of my site, which has long suffered from an Explorer Windows-only CSS bug.
Jon and I have reached the same conclusions, but it's nice to see someone with more authority in the field like PPK post it.
- Room Service
- It's rare that you see an animated gif done well. It takes a subtle touch and anyone with enough skill usually moves on to Flash. Here however we have just enough movement to make things extra interesting, but it is still possible to read the text without being completely distracted. Warning: not blocked by WebSense, but it should be!
- Brian Tarsis, B&D, SM and Spanking Illustrator
- This bondage artist has a link at the bottom of his gallery page to a fan's Memorial Gallery. They wrote him an epitaph and everything!
Thursday, February 12, 2004
- Scooter Software
- The latest version of Beyond Compare supports UTF-8! Now I just need to get an editor that supports it as well as UltraEdit does, because that piece of software annoys me to no end. Jon says slickedit does the trick, don't think I want to pay for it just for work though.
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
- Mozilla Fire Fox
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I'm still waiting until Mozilla Browser 1.0 to send out CDs to the family. I want them to have a nice clean install and not have to upgrade. My upgrade is not going so smoothly, though I did just get my Tabbrowser Extension to work, time to try the Google toolbar again.
- TRU Project Flash
- Love these little interactive Flash moments in porn. Can't say as I'm a fan of the D cup (seen it before elsewhere too) but the little bikini bottom flash and uncrossing legs are lovely.
- Porn Posters
- More vintage porn posters. Champagne Orgy is just so clasy, I love it.
- Porn for the blind.
- Flash 5. Think lesbian porn + image map + screen reader.
- Jennifer Steele: The XXX Pyromaniac
- You simply have to love the animated gif flames. Yes, this is a link to a porn star's website.
- Curious Nature ? wallpapers
- Note to self to watch this space.
Monday, February 09, 2004
- // hicksdesign :: branding firefox
- If you're looking for someone to blame for Mozilla's shifty attempts at branding this guy isn't directly responsible for the new firefox logo, but he names names. He's part of the branding team, which as far as I can tell is made up of various web developers / designers and no marketing people, though I'm not surprised that marketing people aren't being invited to this volunteer effort.
- EditCSS Mozilla Extension
- This could be the next big thing for front-end developers after right-click "View Selection Source." Have to see how well it really works.
- Mozilla Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded
- Lame name change. Can't we get to Mozilla Browser already? That cinched it, I'm waiting until 1.0 to send out CDs.
- Version 2 : Yet Another Redesign Contest
- From Paul Scrivens, another in a long string of redesign contests that people have been coming out with to keep the unemployed occupied. The only reason I'm pointing out this one is that, even the the dude is a megalomaniac, the site up for a redesign is a worthy cause (i.e. not his own, unlike some contests I've seen). The site is Project Gutenberg, which I recognized from one of jfred's daily links: pgdp.
Sunday, February 08, 2004
- I Love Death
- An excellent inaugural link, reminiscent of stick figure death theatre, this short film is a cyclical story about the life and deaths of a working class man. Since it is set to music it will take a long time to download even on a fast connection, but it's worth it. Props: Jon.
Thursday, February 05, 2004
- Why technical writers should love Microsoft's Inductive User Interface
- Back-dating this one to the day we talked about it at work. It's actually just commentary on an MS study and test case, but is better written. I have this theory that processes split into single task steps could actually be made faster for advanced as well as new users by providing proper key commands. Each step would be clearly explained, you would never lose your place, and at the end you'd just hit Enter. Ideally data could be entered entirely with the keyboard, or entirely with the mouse (in the case of existing previous entries similar to the current one).
