« October 2003 Entries »

Autumn Leaves in the Garden

Another major Zen Garden update this evening, with not three but six new official designs courtesy Americans Ray Henry and Lance Leonard, Brit Mike Stenhouse, Italian Sandra Greco, and fellow Canadians Nigel Goodfellow and Wendy Foster.

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MOSe Menus

When in doubt, reload.

I introduced my idea of MOSe, or Mozilla/Opera/Safari Enhancement about four months ago, with my Zen Garden submission mnemonic. It’s time to take it further.

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Bzzzzt.

I’ll skip the really bad entomological puns then, yes?

Ethan Marcotte and I have become the two newest members of the Web Standards Project.

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IE Development: XAML

Looks like the covers are slowly slipping off - a glimpse of Microsoft’s browser strategy focussing on web applications has turned up overnight, courtesy Simon and Eric.

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Link Fest

In an attempt to catch up with all the things that would have made the Dailies if they weren’t still down, here are a few juicy bits and pieces for your linking pleasure.

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Notes From All Over II

ALA 3.0, ReUSEIT! deadline, Garden thievery, iBook updates

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Garden Update

Such is life — for about 24 hours this weekend the Zen Garden was inaccessible. What was supposed to be a simple server update turned into a nightmare for the generous souls hosting the site thanks to kernel compile errors, blown processors, and all sorts of other things I don’t even want to think about. A few version synch glitches here, a little elbow grease there, and we’re back online. Those guys rock.

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A Typeface Fantasy

And this is where we dive right in to the pressing issues, the questions that matter by god! The burning quandry at the forefront of all of our minds is, of course, where in the world did they pull a generic font family like ‘fantasy’ from for CSS?

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mozilla.org Notes

If you don’t have thick skin before doing work for a high profile organization with fans who are very opinionated, you develop it in a hurry. The response has been great, but there are still points to be addressed.

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mozilla.org Redesign

“If you want to change the world, shut your mouth and start to spin it.” - Cracker

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Dangling Carrots

Speculate away.

(Those of you in the know may remain smugly silent. It won’t be long now.)

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Syndication Format

I realize I’m opening up a can of worms here, but I honestly want a solid answer. I’m hoping everyone can put aside their differences and help constructively. Flames and off-topic comments will be deleted liberally. Consider this a social experiment. I can’t believe I have to write all this.

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Eolas Fallout

Ethan Marcotte has an excellent summary of the technical information now available from the major parties affected by the recent Eolas ruling.

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Zen Garden Trivia

It was only a matter of time before I got one of these.

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Do Your Research?

So here’s a question: how accountable to fact must you be when posting information for public consumption?

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Colour Bland: Contrast

This is the continuation of a series. View previous.

Greyscale is only one method of removing colour from an image, and as it turns out, it’s an unrealistic way of doing it. The term colour-blind is misleading - almost no one sees in literal black and white (although that’s tempting to disbelieve at times when debating).

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