« July 2003 Entries »

HTML and Foreign Languages

This is an article I needed to find myself six months ago. Feel free to link gratuitously with phrases like “html translation” and “unicode web” and “foreign language web site” and any other appropriate search term you can think of so that others may benefit from it.

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Garden and CSS News, Conspiracy Theorists Unite!

Note: If you’re looking for the comment Tantek has made about the CSS validator, due to archiving changes on this site you may now find it here.

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Movable Type Fun Day

It’s Movable Type Fun Day!

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Times New Roman

It’s time we take back Times New Roman on the web

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Search Engine Placement

The introduction to this piece has been lost thanks to a Safari caching error. The rest of it should make sense with a little guesswork. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Photoshop Shortcut Keys

Working on a PC, I have never found a satisfactory way of building my own macros. (Mac OS has offered AppleScript for years, of course.) Some software allows me to define my own shortcut keys, others don’t. Photoshop allows for simple automation in the form of ‘Actions’, and I’ve put them to some use which I figured I’d share.

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The Continued Death of the Browser

Remember the Luxury Web idea I was thinking about a month and a half ago? See link for the complete history. Tim Bray has posted something that made me really sit up and pay attention.

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An MSN-TV Complaint

A concerned reader writes:

Your site: http://www.csszengarden.com/ FAILS to satisfy the MSN-TV Browser! It bleeds off the viewable screen to the right and since the WebTv Browser does not permit side scrolling, your pages are a MESS!

What do you propose to do about this? You can find a link to the MSN Developer site here (a bit down the page): http://davmagic.com/PAGES20.html and from there, Download the MSN-TV Viewer to see how your pages look on a TV Browser!

— Very Truly Yours, Magic Dave

Some days these posts just write themselves.

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CSS Roundup

A CSS-2 menu bar, rounded corners vs. CSS-3, and Jigsaw trouble.

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Thinking Out Loud

The Death of Netscape vs. living browsers, analogies to media players, Mozilla.org’s new look, web services need browsers.

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Validation Woes

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R.I.P. Netscape

It’s official: Netscape is dead, and AOL has cut funding for Mozilla.

In future news: November, 2009 — Microsoft issues a press release, raising Internet Explorer licensing fees to “eleventy billion dollars”. AOL executives surprised to discover ‘foresight’ carelessly crossed out of their dictionaries.

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Self Publishing, plus ISSN

A meme I missed while I was away got started by John Gruber, and was eventually picked up by Jeffrey Zeldman and others. The rise of the personal site as a publishing powerhouse is the focus, and since I run a site approaching its first anniversary in a couple of months (I’m not alone on that — D. Keith Robinson and Gruber himself are hitting this milestone), here are a few of my thoughts on the matter.

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Reading List

On my recent foray I had enough time off that I needed a vacation from the general vacationing. Our particular form of escapism involves reading, so there were multiple stops in Borders in CA, CT, and other states. I can say definitively that much like Starbucks, homogeny amongst stores is the name of the game country-wide. Strangely comforting and disturbing at the same time.

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All Good

With a half & half white/yellow gold ring on my finger, I’m pleased to report the wedding went… well, I’d say ‘without a hitch’, except that I have about $400 in discounts and refunds thanks to various screw–ups and a guy got fired as a direct result.

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