BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Sam Ruby quotes a comment Microsoft’s Chris Wilson made in another weblog post: I want to jam standards support into (this and future versions of) Internet Explorer. If a shiv is the only pragmatic tool I can use to do so, shouldn’t I be using it? Sam responded with an SVG workaround, […]
Sam Ruby wrote, Jackass 2.5 is available exclusively on SilverLight and my first thought was, “Hey! IE 8 must be shipping!” Then I clicked the link and realized he was talking about a movie. Sam brought up Jackass the movie because of an issue of the video element in the HTML5 specification, and whether user agents should, or […]
How many misspellings does it take to make a successful mashup? Elaine posted a note about Flickr adding edit capability via Picnik. I immediately tried it out, as the following screenshots demonstrate: [images lost] Just as with the stand alone version of Picnik, some of the functionality is free, others are part of a premium package: $24.95 per […]
I thought I would go into some detail on some of the experiments I’ve been trying out on the site, starting with the SVG clock in the sidebar. A major advantage of SVG is that you can actually see how something is created. Try that with a Flash file. The SVG clock in the sidebar […]
I’ve written about this previously, but worth repeating. CSS can be dynamically created using a PHP application, as long as the content type is set to CSS: <?php // declare the output of the file as CSS header(‘Content-type: text/css’); ?> The style sheet can then be used directly or imported into another: @import “photographs.php”; I use […]