A List Apart has a timely article titled Understanding Progressive Enhancement discussing the perceptual differences between graceful degradation and progressive enhancement. I enjoyed seeing Steve Champeon’s idea given new light. Additionally, now is as good a time as any to have a go at these topics, with the many new enhancements being added to today’s browsers, while […]
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Playing the game
Lars Gunther at WaSP just posted an article on ACID3 and what it really means. Though Webkit may be the first truly out the door, what’s really important is playing the game: In the end the winner is neither Webkit, Opera, Mozilla nor Microsoft, but developers who get more powerful features to work with and more […]
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Gimp 2.6 released
GIMP 2.6 was released this week, with enhanced UI experience, as well as support for 32-bit color. The latter is particularly important as several web designers and photographers have focused on GIMP’s 8-bit support as their main reason not to use the tool. The 8-bit support is still the default, but you can turn 32-bit on, […]
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Distributed Extensibility
While I appreciate Mark Pilgrim’s This week in HTML5 land weekly reports, there’s one underlying thread that occurs every month that Mark doesn’t necessarily touch on: the issue of distributed extensibility. You know, the namespace, XHTML, SVG and MathML et al thing that doesn’t go away. For instance, catching up on my HTML5 Working Group public archives […]
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AppleTV update
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Now that’s the ticket…Apple has released its anticipated AppleTV update. I’m installing now, as I write this. Among the changes are support for HD TV shows, of course, but also Genius playlists, as well as being able to put the machine into Standby mode using Settings, rather than having to […]