One of the new HTML5 elements is the progress element. It’s an element that allows the web page developer to provide minimum, maximum, and current value attributes, and the browsers update the appearance accordingly. If the value attribute isn’t present, the progress element is considered an indeterminate progress element. In other words, a throbber, such as this example, created using […]
Month: May 2010
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Dad’s WWII Gun
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Misfeed
Just realized that my redirected feed was no longer being redirected. Though I haven’t been writing much, I have been writing at some of my sites. I’m also redesigning again, based on the work I’m doing creating an ePub theme and application for Drupal. Needless to say, the design is clean. Very, very clean. One […]
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An Appleless future
It is time to buy new computers. My desktop Windows computer is a 4+ year old Dell laptop with a burnt out LCD that I hook up to an external monitor. It’s running Windows XP, and could potentially be upgraded to Windows 7, but only with much wailing and gnashing of teeth. My laptop is […]
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Skewing old
Amazon released a Kindle 2.5 update this week. The big news about the software upgrade is that it finally includes support for collections—being able to group books based on some criteria. This is the functionality we’ve been asking for since the Kindle was first released. Great! Great, except that the software upgrade is for Kindle […]