We’ve finished up proofs on Painting the Web this week, and I have my first snap of the new cover. I embedded a version of the cover that’s been converted into SVG over at Burningbird, but have included a JPEG below. Now I can turn my attention to the new book, as well as the site changes and […]
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Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I received an email about so-and-so wanting to connect with me on Flickr. I was a little surprised because I don’t promote my Flickr account–I use it for testing, only. I was flattered that they had taken the time to look for me on Flickr. There was a second one […]
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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 […]
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WordPress 2.5 releases
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. WordPress 2.5 has released, including the bad markup generated with the Gallery option. If you serve your pages up as XHTML, the gallery won’t work for you. You will get invalid markup errors, the page will fail to load. Whether this can be fixed with a plug-in or not, I don’t […]
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IE8 and breaking the web
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Another break between IE7 and IE8 is the support for opacity. In previous versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft used its own custom filters in order to implement opacity. This has been known for some time and libraries manage opacity for old and new browsers by using code like the following, […]