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Technology Web

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 […]

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Technology Web

How to Install IE8 beta 2: First, find chicken to sacrifice, wait till midnight

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have Windows XP SP3 installed on my Dell I was therefore more than a little taken back about the instructions to follow to install IE8 beta 2: Uninstall Windows XP SP3 Uninstall IE8 Beta1 Re- install Windows XP SP3 Install IE8 Beta2 If you don’t follow this path, you’ll have […]

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Weather Web

Where or where is my Weather Underground

Looks like someone forgot to pay the domain renewal fee at Weather Underground: update The Weather Underground issued the following statement: Hello Wunderground users. We first want to apologize for the connectivity issues that many of you are or have been experiencing. The problems were caused when someone at our domain name registrar inadvertently made […]

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Photography Web Writing

Color management support in browsers

With the addition of support for color profiles built into Firefox 3, it’s time to take a closer look at how the popular browsers support color management. First though, a quick refresher on the importance of color profiles. If you’ve every worked with a photo in a photo editor, only to have the rich colors leach […]

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Technology Web

ACID3 and my head hurts

Recovered from the Wayback machine. Again, I congratulate the browser teams who have passed the Acid3 and have only one more thing to say: Don’t ever do that again. I’m right in the middle of going through the proofs for Painting the Web, and I’m having to make proof modifications to code and writing because […]