BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. For those iPhone users, bereft at loosing the I am Rich Ruby, no worries: I give you the I Am Dirt Poor Ruby, in SVG. Now, after Safari/Webkit properly builds in support for the Gaussian blur filter in SVG, you can impress your friends and still pay rent! (derived from ruby)
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I gather Al Gore is joining the lineup for the Web 2.0 Summit in September. In his weblog, John Battelle writes: Those of you following my posts around the theme of this year’s Web 2 Summit already know that we’re expanding the scope of the conference this year, and asking a core […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. GigaOM has been spending considerable time lately covering issues of broadband congestion and possible broadband capping—not without some overt hostility expressed by regular readers, who seem to think the issue is one of “selfish” users impacting on the quality of broadband for all. Previous entries are Yo FCC! Are You Doing […]
Chapter 7 in the book (Painting the Web) provides an introduction into some of the many useful elements in SVG. Included is a discussion of the two gradients, linearGradient and radialGradient. They can’t be used to create a visual element by themselves, but are, instead, used to fill any shape that takes the fill attribute. For […]
37signals is phasing out support for IE6. The company weblog lists the reasons for this decision, including: IE 6 is a last-generation browser. This means that IE 6 can’t provide the same web experience that modern browsers can. Continued support of IE 6 means that we can’t optimize our interfaces or provide an enhanced customer experience […]