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 […]
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Opacity returns to IE8
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 […]
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The political story this week
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 […]
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Thank goodness for giant squid
Because otherwise, I would go mad. New blockbuster video: Don’t go boating if you owe money to a giant squid. The movie of two friends in a boat on the Brisbane River, one of whom owes money to a giant squid. Guess where the giant squid lives? Soon to be a new feature length film. “It’s […]