As I come to the end of another day wrestling with code in an effort to get it to run in Internet Explorer 8, I find this post about some real world statistics from a large UK healthcare site. Internet …
Read moreWhy Firefox’s new numbering is a problem
Mozilla recently released Firefox 5, (quietly) announcing that this represented the end of life (EOL) for Firefox 4. The problem is that Firefox 4 was released less than a two months ago. This has led to an ongoing discussion about …
Read moreGrave Gravatars make comments seem sarcastic
Like many other blogs, this one uses so-called “globally recognised avatars”. or “gravatars” to provide each commenter with their own unique image which will match from site to site, and from visit to visit, so long as they use the …
Read moreDIY Foxkeh SVG Wallpapers
I’ve long argued that there should be more SVG-based wallpapers available, so that users can modify or tweak them to suit their own requirements. A step in the right direction is Foxkeh’s Wallpaper Creator – a web page which lets …
Read moreA bettr Flattr dashboard
I’ve mentioned Flattr on this blog before, and now that I’ve been using it for a while I’d like to suggest some changes to the Flattr “Dashboard” which might make more effective use of the screen. I would imagine that …
Read moreMozilla Add-ons workshop, London 2010
Last night I went to the free Add-ons workshop that Mozilla hosted in London. It was an informative and interesting evening – well worth the trek down to London, even if it did then lead to a late-night trek back …
Read moreFixing online safety where it counts
Facebook’s in the news again as yet another country wants them to add a “safety” or “panic” button to the site so that users (especially children) can easily report any improper contact from other users. This time it’s Australia asking …
Read moreLosing the http:// is a good thing
Chromium – the developer builds of the code that eventually becomes Google Chrome – was recently changed to not show the “http://” that precedes normal web URLs. This has, of course, led to bug reports and much discussion about the …
Read morePlaying with SVG filters on HTML content
Note: The technique described below only works in Firefox 3.5 and above (or products using the same rendering engine). It isn’t part of any formal spec (though it would be a great addition to one of them), and could potentially …
Read moreEasy easing gets easier; hard easing stays hard
I’ve just been reading about CSS Transitions, which are part of the CSS3 draft specification, and which has been experimentally implemented in Opera, Webkit (Safari, Chrome and Konqueror amonst others) and in nightly builds of Firefox (with documentation on the …
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