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As I dig into the nooks and crannies of the various CSS3 modules, I’ve come across something that seems like I should be able to do, but I can’t make it work in browsers. Now, I know as well as anyone that if you try to do something and browsers won’t do it, it might well be the fault of the browsers. Particularly if you can get various browsers to fail differently on the same declaration, as I have. But this is, bizarrely, complicated enough that it’s hard to be sure if it’s me or them. So allow me to pose this to you as a challenge. Given the following ideal rendering, how would you arrive at the depicted result using the single 5-pixel-by-5-pixel image shown within the content? … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

TUAW: Verizon iPhone News : TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) has some good coverage of today’s Verizon iPhone announcement and related stories — the mobile hotspot feature for up to 5 devices , why it won’t handle data and voice simultaneously , subtle changes to the antenna and button placement , and (linked from the last article) why some existing cases won’t fit the new Verizon iPhone . … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

TUAW: Verizon iPhone News : TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) has some good coverage of today’s Verizon iPhone announcement and related stories — the mobile hotspot feature for up to 5 devices , why it won’t handle data and voice simultaneously , subtle changes to the antenna and button placement , and (linked from the last article) why some existing cases won’t fit the new Verizon iPhone . … Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

A few changes for beta 2 of the updated reset, presented here: /* http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ v2.0b2 | 201101 NOTE: THIS IS A BETA VERSION (see previous line) USE WITH CAUTION AND TEST WITH ABANDON */ html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td, article, aside, canvas, details, embed, figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary, time, mark, audio, video { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; font-size: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; } /* HTML5 display-role reset for older browsers */ article, aside, details, figcaption, figure, footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section { display: block; } body { line-height: 1; } ol, ul { list-style: none; } blockquote, q { quotes: none; } blockquote:before, blockquote:after, q:before, q:after { content: ”; content: none; } table { border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; } First, the small changes: adding embed , output , and ruby to the first rule. I went back and forth on these quite a bit, which is why they weren’t in the first cut. However, none of them seem to be replaced so they’re in. Others, such as command , are replaced and so stay out for the same reason that form inputs are left out. ( img is a special case.) The HTML5 element I’m still stuck on is datalist , which seems sort of replaced but then again maybe not. I’m really close to including it on the same grounds that I include canvas , but it’s hard to know if that’s a good idea… Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

It was close to four years ago now that I first floated (ha!), publicly refined , and then published at its own home what’s become known as the “Eric Meyer Reset”. At the time, I expected it would be of interest to a small portion of the standards community, provoke some thought among fellow craftspeople, and get used occasionally when it seemed handy. Instead, it’s ended up almost everywhere. (This occasionally backfires on me when people use it in the CSS of e-mail campaigns, it’s exposed by older mail clients, and people then mail me to demand that I unsubscribe them from the mailing list. But that’s not the worst backfire—I’ll get to that in just a minute.) Four years is long enough for a revisit, I’d say… Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

An Open Letter to Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo Inc. : Thomas Hawk: In your letter to your employees you say, it

Hicksdesign Go to the source

Boxee have released a Box update for the v1 firmware, fixing one of the big issues I and many others had – an option prioritise local files over online content. If it’s your first time starting the Box, you’ll now get this question on the way in: If it’s not, you can make the switch in Settings. Now when you go to Movies or Shows it displays your files by default. It now calls them ‘Local Movies’ which is an improvement over ‘Movies Files’, but I’d still prefer simply ‘Movies’. This update also adds nice features such as an alphabetical scrollbar, more sorting options and the option to set hourly scans of your media sources is back. So I can tick those of the ‘missing from the Boxee Beta’ list: Priority to Local Content More regular scanning of media sources A stylish UI Setting to change the background image (if we can just change that muddy default background image it would go a long way to helping the UI) Full screen online videos Missing Apps (Last.FM, Vimeo etc.) It sounds as if the last two are coming in the next update (out before the end of the year), which just leaves the question of the interface, and whether there will be any improvements there… Read the rest here

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I ran into this rather odd rendering in Firefox 3.6. I had a fieldset with content following it that was nested inside a list item. <ul> <li><fieldset> … </fieldset> <p>Additional information.</p> <li> </ul> The odd behaviour became quickly evident when my list bullet would not line up next to the fieldset, as expected. Instead, it lined up with the content that appeared immediately after the fieldset. I haven’t found an easy fix for this except to remove the fieldset entirely. … Read the rest here

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Tabletop Product Photography Guide : A nice round-up of tips and product suggestions from the knowledgable crew at B&H. … Read the rest here

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TweetMag Screenshots : I use Flipboard almost daily to flip through content posted by those I follow on Twitter. It

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Spacelog : This is fascinating. Original NASA transcripts from early space exploration. The transcript formatting reads like blog comments or a Twitter conversation. Every comment has a permanent URI

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Hicksdesign Go to the source

After using the Boxee Box for a few days, I had the itch to restore it to the factory version of 0.9 and see how that performed. The process was surprisingly easy, with the exception of issues connecting to my N wifi network. It didn’t like either a 2.5ghz connection, or a 5ghz, and would only connect to G. Once past that, I got to experience what the Boxee Box could’ve been. The interface looked fantastic, my local content was more important again, music and photos were back in the main menu and there were all the apps that were missing. Online videos played full screen, meaning the BBC iPlayer was usable again. … Read the rest here

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The Short Review The Boxee Box is a well made, beautiful piece of hardware that plays even large mkv files without complaining. However, it has a mass of regressions from the beta version: missing functionality, downgraded UI aesthetics & usability and online content is given more importance than your own files. All issues I have with Boxee Box are potentially solvable via firmware updates though! The Long Review After waiting 11 months for it be released, it was a shock when I discovered that the final Boxee Box UI had undergone so many radical changes. I cancelled my order, preferring to try the desktop software first to be sure that it still suited me as much as the beta. However, I saw some more reviews, spoke to the Boxee CEO Avner Ronen and saw his responses to the issues and felt confident again. So, the order was back on! There are many excellent reviews out there, and I will try not to cover the same ground as those, so make sure you also read: Engadget Crunchgear Matt Apps Next, let me state the conditions and criteria of this review. … Read the rest here

Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

We’re back at it with a brand new A Book Apart from web design mastermind, Dan Cederholm: CSS3 for Web Designers . What’s more, no waiting for pre-orders this time around, you can grab the book right now , in both paperback or ebook formats. The books are just finishing up at the printer and should ship out on Monday, the ebooks are available this very moment. What’s it about? CSS3 opens up many possibilities we’ve had to bend over backwards to achieve in the past… Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

The Boxee Box launch party happened in NYC last night, and with it, was the first look at the Boxee 1.0 software. When Boxee first appeared in alpha, this is what it looked like: It was OK, but I wasn’t a big fan of its aesthetics. However, early this year they unveiled the Boxee Beta interface, with IA work by Whitney Hess . I was won over. It had warmth, atmosphere and character. The main navigation icons were really well done, and gone was the quirky typeface that didn’t have big screen impact. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Things have been, and will continue to be, quiet around here this week and part of next. I

Eric Meyer Go to the source

I had planned to spend yesterday goofing off, as is my tradition for the day after I return from a conference and don’t have anything immediately pressing on my plate. Instead I watched and documented, as best I could, a case of memetic epidemiology happen in realtime. The meme was the Cooks Source story, which I stumbled across relatively early in the day. I won’t recap the story here, as the original LiveJournal post by Monica Gaudio and Edward Champion’s very well-researched article do a much better job of that. The latter piece is particularly commendable if you’re new to the story, as it not only explains the genesis of the incident but also lays bare a number of other things that were discovered as the story went ballistic. I’m not sure exactly where I first came across the story—probably a retweet of Adam Banks by a friend of mine —but at the time the meme was really just getting started. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Modernizr on the Server-Side : James Pearce: The current vogue seems to be to do as much [adjusting web content] as possible on the client-side: media queries, progressive enhancement, adding CSS body classes, and so on

Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

by Erin Kissane W hen I was five, my grandfather kept a stash of 3 Musketeers bars on top of his fridge. Not just a handful, but an actual display box like the ones in the check-out aisle at the grocery. He bought them because they were my favorites; they lived on the fridge because they were contraband. I wasn’t supposed to have sugar. Honey and blackstrap molasses from a co-op grocery that smelled like carob-flavored mummy, sure, but not the refined stuff then subject to a hippie-driven moral panic. … Read the rest here