BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Ike continues to rain destruction down in its path. It’s good to hear the storm surges weren’t as bad along the Gulf, but they were bad enough. Hopefully, though, loss of life will be minimal. Ike just passed through the St. Louis area with both wind and rain. A lot […]
Where I focused on Ian Hickson’s statement about extensibility, every other person, and their brothers, sisters, and aunts are throwing a hissy because of the HTML5 timeline. Scott Gilbertson writes: Even if your 2022 ronc-o-matic web-enabled toaster (It slices! It dices! It browses! It arouses!) does ship with Firefox v22.3, will HTML still be the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When IE8 beta 1 released, there was a minor uproar at the fact that Microsoft had dropped support for its proprietary version of opacity, while not providing support for the newer CSS-based opacity. Gone were the days when the following CSS setting would change the opacity of an element in […]
We know that Hurricane Ike is going to be the worst when the National Weather Service issues warnings about getting out or face certain death. The winds are a problem, but the real issue is storm surge, and it looks to be unstoppable. We, in Missouri, are now under a flood watch, because we’ll be finishing […]
As of September 12: New heights of stupidity: Glenn Greenwalk maps out the route a ridiculous accusation takes, from propaganda to major media. Election will impact Supreme Court: Buffalo News Op-Ed on choosing the next member of the Supreme Court, and the impact this will have on the land. Canadian Elections 101: A nice introduction […]