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TIPS, TRICKS & BOOKMARKSSafari and Transparent Borders
I had noticed this little bug on my own site. In the footer, there's a 5px border with the colour set using rgba. In Safari, it's as if the semi-transparent borders overlap each other in the corners and the values are compounded. This creates little squares in the corner of my squares. Not quite what you'd expect. Firefox and Opera (10.5; I didn't test in 10.10) render this as you'd expect, wit...
Onward
It's so easy to wallow in self-pity when things don't go right. As much as 2009 sucked on all levels, it wasn't all bad. As much as I want to sulk, the fact remains that I live a charmed life. Through some karmic luck of the draw, I've got a lot to be thankful for. Personal Projects This past year was a year of simplication and basically had me letting go of all my personal projects—at lea...
Failure
It has been a year marked with a series of failures and while I feel some urge to explain it all, I think it will be better off left unsaid. This post is a stick in the sand to remind me of what has happened. Onward we go, for time gives us no other choice....
Simplest jQuery Slideshow
A friend was looking at doing a simple slideshow. The requirements were very straightforward: No animation controls. eg: play, stop. Images should cross-fade. Her instinct was to find an existing jQuery plug-in and revise it to work to her needs. That would seem simple enough but if you do a search for jQuery slideshows, you'll find that there are plenty of them and they are fille...
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Delicious Links
- Video for Everybody!
A combination of Flash video and HTML5 with Ogg and Quicktime formats to provide video to as wide an audience as possible - Realism in UI Design
An interesting analysis of design realism and how we associate meaning to icons. - How to Fix Randomly Disappearing Absolutely-Positioned Elements in IE
I ran into this very problem just a couple months ago. - Should You Use JavaScript Library CDNs?
An interesting analysis of whether to reference the Google CDN to improve performance.
Twitter Faves
- stefsull As the iPad evolves, I'm sure it will get thinner, yet more absorbent.
- ang "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
- deanjrobinson Personas? really Firefox? why would you do that? Shouldn't finishing CSS3 support be more important that adding hello kitty to my toolbar?
- chrisdavidmills "My critics say go to hell, I say YEAH? Stupid mother fucker — I'm already there."
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