This is why FireFox rocks! (the only downside is one can never stop at one) Starting with the Basic must have extensions. These are the first ones for me to install on new machines, and evangelize to clients.
Firebug: a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, [...]
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 was released on August 27, 2001,
It’s reach end Life: IE 6 is being end life’d (no longer supported or service patched) on 13 July 2010 or approximately 24 months after the last service pack which was Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 in June 2008, and generally [...]
via smashingmagazine we have 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To, and they are
Lazy Registration;
Progressive Disclosure;
Forgiving Format;
Clear Primary Actions;
Breadcrumbs;
Account Registration;
Required Field Marker;
Steps Left;
Subscription plans;
Hover Controls;
Every web designer and [...]
I need to set some XML Schema Date/Time Datatypes (also called xsd date) values for Created (being now) and Expired (one month from now) so that the result might look something like a dateTime in UTC (also known as GMT, but also being a 24 hour clock format) time by adding a “Z” (for Zulu?) [...]
via Net tuts+ 10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know is a timely reminder (especially since IE 8 is just out), of some basic HTML markup that you really should know.
in particular there are several tag you really need to know :
the <optgroup> tag, for grouping of options inside a select box.
the <label> tag, [...]
via the flickr page of schoschie comes the interesting discovery that Google is using a CSS sprite on it’s Google search pages :
I had left styles disabled by accident (from the Develop menu in Safari 4) and was surprised to see that Google apparently uses CSS sprites on its search page.
So, what are these “elf’s” [...]
GreaseMonkey is an add-on to (primarily, but not only) the Mozilla FireFox web browser that lets you run small (javascript) scripts to modify HTML pages on-the-fly, changing how they behave and look. It was originally created by Aaron Boodman (aka youngpup) in 2005.
Twitter is a social networking and micro blogging service that enables its users [...]
via the New York Times’s Consumed – A Successful Failure – Fail Whale the story of the Twitter Fail Whale that we love and hate, and the an artist and designer Yiying Lu behind it.
See the Fail Whale in it’s native enviroment.
Via Flickr, you can see some of the variations on the Fail Whale [...]
I’ve now upgraded False Positives to the latest WordPress release WordPress 2.7.1, plus a long over due theme change to Thematic, A WordPress Theme Framework (created by Winnipeg’r Ian Stewart.
I you are reading this via the RSS feed, come visit for the shinny.
In the process I corrected a configuration issue which was stopping me from [...]
A big article in the Saturday January 31st Globe and Mail Newspaper proclaimed :
T.O. IS BECOMING A SOLUTIONS PLAYGROUND: WHY OUR CITY IS THE LATEST HOT SPOT FOR GEEKS, WONKS AND WEB JUNKIES, Toronto 2.0: data sharing source.
The focus of the article was largely on an event run at the Center for Social Innovation run [...]
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