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Eric Meyer Go to the source

A couple of weeks back I wrote about customizing your markup , but I got an important bit wrong and while I’ve corrected the post, I wanted to clear up the error in detail. I said that you wrap portions of your document (or the whole thing) in an element element and use the customized element inside. This is incorrect , and actually a very bad idea. In fact, you define your customized elements using an element element and then use the customized elements later in the document. Something like this: <element extends="h1" name="x-superh1"> </element> <h1 is="superh1">UltraMegaPower!!!</h1> <h1>Regular Old Power</h1> The line break inside the element element isn’t required—I just threw it in for clarity. … Read the rest here

Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

Kickstarter has quickly become one of my favorite sites around, and not just now, but for as long as I’ve been on the internet. Their goal is so empowering, so noble. Every time I visit the site, there is a very good chance I’ll be parting ways with some cash. Whenever I see someone talking so deeply about something they want to make a reality, and how low the bar is to help them do it, it gets me every time. It’s such a simple concept, but the effect is gargantuan. Today I read this, Kickstarter Expects To Provide More Funding To The Arts Than NEA : One of the company’s three co-founders, Yancey Strickler, said that Kickstarter is on track to distribute over $150 million dollars to its users’ projects in 2012, or more than entire fiscal year 2012 budget for the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), which was $146 million… Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

Though I certainly do not support SOPA or the PROTECT IP Act (the complete, rather contrived acronym of PIPA), I will not be blacking out meyerweb. This is largely because the vast majority of my readers already know about these bills, and very likely oppose them; as for anyone who visits but does not know about these bills, I feel I’ll do better to speak out than to black out. (Which is not a criticism of those who do black out. We all fight in our own ways.) Instead, I will reproduce here the letter I attempted to send via contact form to my state Senator this morning, and which I will print out and send by regular postal service later today. Senator Brown: I grew up in Lexington, Ohio. I moved to Cleveland in pursuit of a career, and found success. … Read the rest here

Mezzoblue Go to the source

Take it with the usual grain of salt that should accompany any news of global browser trends, but, extrapolating out from the 2011 trend in StatCounter’s Global Stats Chrome appears set to surpass IE as the most-used desktop browser some time next summer. And that will finally end the 13 year domination of the market by Internet Explorer. Though, I’m a little sad that Chrome’s market share is also coming at the expense of Firefox. … Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

[[ MARK IS FINE. Please see the update at the end of the post for the resolution. —E. ]] Just yesterday, I took a screenshot of the title page of Dive Into HTML5 to include in a presentation as a highly recommended resource. Now it’s gone. That site, along with all the other “Dive Into…” sites (Accessibility, Python, Greasemonkey, etc.) and addictionis.org, is returning an HTTP “410 Gone” message. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Ethan Marcotte: The Boston Globe : Ethan Marcotte, who was an important member of a team full of important members, describing the anticipation leading up to the responsive overhauling of BostonGlobe.com : It’s been kind of a weird experience, talking publicly for the better part of this year about a site that hadn’t yet launched. I mean, I was—and still am—incredibly proud of the small contributions I made, of the talented team I collaborated with, but still: talking about a site that hasn’t launched yet? There’s some part of me that’s felt, well, odd about that. What if people’s expectations aren’t met? What if we can’t deliver? What if the Internet gets hit by an exploding unicorn and we somehow don’t finish the project because NO MORE INTERNET YOU GUYS…… Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Spin.js, a Loading Spinner Sans Images : Uses CSS3 to render the animation, falling back to VML for Internet Explorer (all the way back to IE6). 2.8K of total code and supported by newer versions of most browsers. /via @ jc … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

Just a quick documentation of this interesting bug. This only happens in Internet Explorer 8 (but not 7 or 9), which was interesting. If you have an element with long text but it has white-space:nowrap to prevent text wrapping with a max-width and overflow:hidden to clip the overflowed text, then a floated container (which should collapse to the width of the content) will collapse to the width of the text as if it was not set to be clipped. The use of text-overflow:ellipsis has no effect on this. … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

If like me, you have no interest in MLB , will never use it, and would rather you didn’t have it so prominent in your Apple TV menu, this tip is for you. It’s a bit of a rigmarole, but if you’re really keen to remove it, here are the steps you need to take: First of all, if you haven’t already done so, jailbreak your Apple TV with Seas0n Pass ssh into the Apple TV (in something like Transmit, Flow, Cyberduck etc.) using apple-tv.local as the server, root as the username, and alpine as the password. You can of course do it Terminal, using ssh root@apple-tv.local but I find the file editing part a right faff personally! Navigate to /private/var/stash/Applications/AppleTV.app/Appliances/Internet.frappliance Open info.plist (I used xcode) Find ‘FRApplianceCategoryDescriptors’, and delete Item 1, and save. On the Apple TV, restart lowtide via Maintenance > Settings (or just pull the plug out and pop it back in again) …and it’s gone! Tagged: appletv , howto , mediacenter … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

Tea drinking peoples of the internets! Here’s a little experiment I’d like you try next time you make a cuppa with a tea bag. If you’re strictly loose-leaf, then this test isn’t going to be for you, but for the rest of us, give it a go and see if you think it tastes any better. First boil a kettle of fresh water, so that it is has oxygen. Reboiled water loses it’s oxygen and therefore doesn’t brew properly. Then, here’s the bit I want you to test (although you may already do this part)… Dribble the boiling water onto the tea bag from at least a foot away. The smaller the amount of water the better. … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

Recently, my favourite place to spend time on the internets has been the Rapha Films channel on Vimeo . These high quality short films are not only inspiring and enthusing, but beautifully shot, edited and scored too. It all started with their Rapha & Paul Smith promo video: Which was followed up by ‘City Riding’ (both featuring the can’t-help-but-want-to-imitate Cole Maness ): Then there is Rapha California, which if you ignore the anti-helmet sentiment, is brimming with atmosphere: All three directed by Ben Ingham , with brilliant sound design by Soundfly . I could go on, embedding just about every video they’ve uploaded, but instead, I’ll mention 3 more. Two Broad Arrows a short film inspired by the life of Sean Kelly, Rapha Rides Monti Pallidi and the Tour of California series, starting here . If you’re a cyclist then you’ll no doubt already be aware of these films, but worth highlighting for anyone who hasn’t. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

Determining a unit of measurement to size our text can be a topic of heated debate, even in this day and age. Unfortunately, there are still various pros and cons that make the various techniques less desirable. It’s just a matter of which less-desirable is most desirable. There are two main techniques that are extolled: Size with px Size with em Let’s review these two approaches before I reveal the magical third. Sizing with px In the early days of the web, we used pixels to size our text. … Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

The first Event Apart of the year has just kicked off here in Seattle . Every Event Apart is excellent, but the Seattle instantiation has two extra things going for it: a great venue and a really great hotel with some colourful history . Jeffrey opened the proceedings with a long-zoom stroll down memory lane, giving us a history lesson of technology, the internet, the web and web standards. Reflecting on the history of the internet today seems especially poignant with the recent passing of Paul Baran . Which reminds me… Ten years ago, the Zelig-like Stuart Brand conducted an interview with Paul Baran. You can read the transcript on Wired . … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

Brilliant solution to listening to your iTunes library remotely. I already have a Mac set up at home with Home Sharing on, to serve the Apple TV and my iPhone in it’s speaker dock. Now I can use it to play it anywhere there is internets! Comment on this … Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

There are a handful of people who follow me on Twitter who continually moan about the way I use the service. Some complain when I tweet about what I’ve eaten, who I’ve met or what I’ve done that day. Others complain when I use Gowalla or Foursquare to announce my location or post a stream of consciousness on a topic that is currently bugging me. An obvious reaction is to remind those people that nobody is forcing them to follow me and they can easily unfollow if they don’t like what I’m saying. In fact, I have done just that on several occasions. However Twitter is an unusual hybrid of public discussion and private conversation… Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

As web developers, we want a way to ask “can you do this?” And there are varying degrees to which we can determine this. One of those ways is to use user agent (UA) detection. We ask the browser some information about itself and it tells us. Based on what we know about a browser, we can make certain assumptions. If a browser tells you it is Internet Explorer, chances are you support the HTML, CSS and JavaScript that Internet Explorer supports. This detection could happen on the server-side or client-side… Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

Now that the Shelf Theme is finally launched, I wanted to write up some of the process and challenges that The Theme Foundry and I faced in it’s creation. I’d started with the intention of dribbling everything, but constantly found that I wanted to show more than 400×300px, so I started documenting the process in a Flickr Set instead. This post will flesh those out further. Creation I had a very clear picture in my head of how it should look, so my first step was to create what I call a ‘ HTML Sketch”: This is where I set up basic text and positioned boxes to make sure the layout was actually possible – a series of horizontally arranged ‘cards’ on a shelf, where the card height collapsed when the viewport was too small and the cards didn’t wrap. … 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

Cameron Moll Go to the source

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

Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

by Robin Sloan I don’t like candy. Sure, I had my Halloween hoard like any kid, and I’ve snagged a Snickers in line at the supermarket plenty of times. But really, I don’t like this stuff. It brings me no joy—and in fact, I think it symbolizes a lot of the problems with our food system today. Luckily, I think candy is a historical accident, not a food group. And I think its days are numbered. … Read the rest here