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And with that news I shed a tear

Mark Thursday, 19th January, 2012Sunday, 6th June, 2021

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 …

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Why Firefox’s new numbering is a problem

Mark Monday, 27th June, 2011Sunday, 6th June, 2021

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 …

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Grave Gravatars make comments seem sarcastic

Mark Tuesday, 7th September, 2010

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 …

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DIY Foxkeh SVG Wallpapers

Mark Monday, 2nd August, 2010

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 …

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A bettr Flattr dashboard

Mark Friday, 16th July, 2010

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 …

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Mozilla Add-ons workshop, London 2010

Mark Thursday, 1st July, 2010Tuesday, 6th July, 2010 1 Comment

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 …

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Fixing online safety where it counts

Mark Tuesday, 8th June, 2010

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 …

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Losing the http:// is a good thing

Mark Tuesday, 20th April, 2010

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 …

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Playing with SVG filters on HTML content

Mark Friday, 26th February, 2010 3 Comments

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 …

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Easy easing gets easier; hard easing stays hard

Mark Tuesday, 23rd February, 2010

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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