« May 2003 Entries »

Paragraph Hovers, Microsoft vs. AOL, IE

Variants on Stuart Robinson’s paragraph–level link hovering, acknowledging the $750 million Microsoft/AOL settlement, finding Zeldman’s link to the TechNet article that announces the death of a stand–alone Internet Explorer.

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IE Revisited, Phoenix

More speculation on the death of Internet Explorer, and the Firebird experience.

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Music, Bowman's Garden, and Meyer on CSS

A great independent music store that pays the artists directly, Douglas Bowman’s submission to the css Zen Garden and his design notes, and a reaction to Eric Meyer’s musings about the future.

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Nielsen Was Right

There was an interesting article last week on Federal Computer Week, an information technology mag for the U.S. Government trade. Online Feng Shui — focus on users and not designers or committees.

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The End of IE?

Well now… there’s a rumour going around that Microsoft may stop development of Internet Explorer, to focus on MSN instead. See the comments in Craig Saila’s post on CSS flubs in IE.

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Character Sets

It’s a thrilling experience to see your words translated into a foreign tongue, even more so when the language is completely unrecognizable to you. With the first Zen Garden translation (Greek, thanks to Akis Apostoliadis) just about ready for prime–time, and the second one (French, thanks to Nic Steenhout) under way, I’ve had to start thinking about foreign characters.

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PNG Petition

Jeffrey explains far better than I could why this is important, but if you develop web pages in any capacity, go sign the PNG petition. You’ll be glad you did in 1 to 3 years.

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Patent Policy Approved

Good news from the W3C today. The proposed Royalty–Free Patent Policy has been approved.

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Willison takes on jwz and Winer

One day soon I will make a post that is non CSS–related. It will happen, I swear it.

On to business. Simon Willison has taken on two of the most vocal critics of CSS in the past few weeks, Dave Winer and Jamie Zawinski. Both of the mentioned debates generated a flurry of controversy, and catalyzed argument on whether to use CSS or not.

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And So the Garden Grows

Alright! Now we’re going somewhere! The Zen Garden has shown up on BD4D and Newstoday, both design portals that reach the other half of the audience that the Garden is intended for.

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The New Browser Wars

Roll call.

The above two links will take you to some interesting numbers, although nothing you haven’t seen before. IE has enjoyed a majority position in the browser market for what’s going on 3 years now, and the new wave of standards–compliant browsers are barely making a scratch.

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Input Checking & Price Shopping

This morning as I dutifully hopped onto Amazon.ca to order my copy of Jeffrey Zeldman’s new Designing With Web Standards and bump his sales rank of 89 up even further, a few little nits popped up that need picking.

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Nutscrape

Okay, who’s the smartass? And how did you do that?

It made me laugh anyway, whoever you are.

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The Price of Fame

Hopefully the last I’ll be posting about the Garden for a while; I’d like to go back to regular posting soon. Quickly, now —

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Garden Submissions

The first user submission from Jason Estes is now up and there’s another in the pipeline. I’ll try and refrain from making a special post every time a new one is added, but I get the feeling the daily links will be seeing a lot of Zen Garden action.

Me, yesterday: Wow, this has been quite a trip for me. Trite given that today saw three times as much traffic.

I have a 3GB monthly cap, my front page pushes 100k, and someone browsing through all five iterations of the Zen Garden is drawing about 300 to 400k; I’m worried. Crossing my fingers that my host will pro–rate their next plan up from my current. This one may have been oddly prophetic.

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CSS Font Sizes

A couple of reactionary items to feedback on the Garden.

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Garden Feedback

Wow, this has been quite a trip for me.

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CSS Zen Garden

With a few caveats and a bit of apprehension, I present to you my latest pet project: The CSS Zen Garden. (also available on it’s own domain)

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CSS In The News

jwz: CSS is BS

Steven Canfield: CSS: Where art thou? (Height: Auto)

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Consider Your World

I’m pleased to report that California is still much as I left it back in February, but somewhat chagrined to report that airport security is still as ridiculously paranoid as ever.

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CSS Styling

When using CSS, the one thing that almost no thought is given to is how to format the file itself.

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