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Eric Schmidt and Ivan Seidenberg: A Path to an Open Internet : The CEOs of Google and Verizon authored an opinion piece in The Washington Post today, which closes with this statement: There are hundreds of millions of Internet users in the United States, and no two companies should be so presumptuous as to think they can solve this challenge alone. It is up to policymakers to establish broadband policy for the country. We are eager to work with Congress, the FCC and other interested parties to get this right. We hope that our proposal provides some concrete ideas to move this process forward. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made : Just yesterday I contemplated authoring something on what I think is the most fascinating advertising campaign in recent memory. I’m glad I didn’t. It wouldn’t have come anywhere close to the insight offered by ReadWriteWeb in this article. I do wish, however, that the article would have mentioned more about the equipment and software being used for the ingenious, real-time shooting. Video DSLR? Final Cut… Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

The Cure for Creative Blocks? Leave Your Desk. : Jocelyn K. Glei, writing for The 99 Percent: Though we are more likely than ever to be tethered to others by our iPhones and Blackberries, it’s more important than ever to carve out periods of uninterrupted contemplation. To take our brains out of their scattershot Internet patterns and navigate a new city, take in nature on a long walk, sit quietly and read a book, or have a serendipitous conversation with a stranger. I’d refer to this as creative pause , and I agree with Jocelyn’s remarks about it being a necessary element in the flow of creativity. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

In Chrome 5, Safari 4, Opera 10.53 and sometimes Firefox (although I was unable to reproduce it in this test case), changing the visibility of the element by toggling display:none will cause the scroll offset to reset to zero. Toggling visibility:hidden does not seem to trigger the same problem. Scroll the container and then toggle the classes applied. Class applied: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. … Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

While I agree with Neven Mrgan’s Walled Gardens , I feel like the whole imagery of walled gardens is a bit of a metaphorical stretch—not because it’s inaccurate, but because it’s fundamentally unnecessary. We don’t need metaphors here. That’s because the iTunes App Store is just what its name states: it is a store. That has a fairly specific and intentional meaning in the world of commerce. It means that the stock is not infinite and that someone has screened it. … Read the rest here

Mezzoblue Go to the source

You thought our long nightmare of PNG alpha transparency support was finally over as of IE7, didn’t you? Yeah, me too. Over the past few months I’ve been collaborating with Chris Glass on the newly-launched Joyent site. (When someone comes to you and says, hey, we have Chris Glass helping us out with this project and we’d like the two of you to work together, you jump at that chance.) I was tossing around ideas for building an interactive infographic Chris had designed, and thought of at least four different ways of pulling it off. We’re reaching this interesting point with front end web technology where we now have actual choices besides Flash for jobs like this… Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

Have you heard of Hundred Pushups ? It’s a simple six-week program to build up your strength by slowly increasing the number of pushups you can complete. By the end of six weeks, you should be able to complete 100 and along the way you’ve gotten a short workout working multiple muscle groups. Since I’m still trying to lose weight , I figured I’d get started on the program (yesterday was my first day and managed to do 12 pushups at the end of my first set). However, being the geek that I am, I thought, "I should track my progress with a cool iPhone app." There is one available for $1.99 from the Hundred Pushups web site. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

Leave it to PPK to come out with a bold statement like, " CSS vendor prefixes considered harmful ". Moreso, It’s time to abolish all vendor prefixes. They’ve become solutions for which there is no problem, and they are actively harming web standards. The problem is that they are necessary. Look at Safari’s implementation of border-radius compared to the rest. I still can’t remember if it’s border-radius-topleft or border-top-left-radius . … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

IE9 Preview Available for Download : Or, in Microsoft speak, the “Internet Explorer Platform Preview” is available for download. Microsoft has been touting HTML5, CSS3 (partial), and SVG support with the upcoming overhaul of its browser. But not without controversial feedback from the developer community, including this observation from Jeffrey Zeldman: By torturing the IE rendering engine every couple of years instead of putting it out of its misery [by switching to Webkit], Microsoft contributes to the withering away of its own monopoly. That might not be good for the shareholders, but it is great for everyone else. … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

The worrying news came today that the House of Lords have passed the draconian Digital Economy Bill . The bill is being hurried through without democratic process, and that’s just not how we should be doing things in this country. It’s clear that the bill is to appease the befuddled music industry, who are still living in a world before the home cassette recorder was invented. If you’re worried by the speed and heavy handedness of this process, please consider getting behind the campaign on 38 degrees . … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

Every now and then I look at using background-position-x and background-position-y but can never seem to find a definitive and up-to-date resource. To save myself the trouble in the future, I’m documenting it here. Positioning via separate X and Y values is a feature that Internet Explorer introduced but never made it into a W3C specification. Any recommendations to add it to the spec have been denied . Why have separate X and Y values? … Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

5 Years ago somebody wrote something stupid on the Internet that annoyed a bunch of bloggers enough to write about it, including myself. Yesterday I received a contrite email from this person saying that the incident had ruined their life and asking if I’d remove the post. It turns out that my blog post ranked in the top 20 results for this guys name and he was wondering if I’d remove the article. I considered it, as to be honest I’d completely forgotten about the event (as had most people 2 weeks after it happen) and I didn’t really care that much anyway. However it got me thinking about two different things. On the one hand, the Internet can freeze youthful folly and a small transgressions can stick with you for life. … Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

The winners of Microsoft’s MIX 10K Smart Coding Challenge (for which I was honored to serve as one of the judges ) have been announced, and the Grand Prize has been awarded to… Jimmy D ’s Frog Log . Which is an HTML5/CSS/JS entry. That doesn’t run in Internet Explorer. Yep. Frog Log was my top pick, and obviously did very well with the other judges too, for a good reason: it’s a fun game. It doesn’t play quite the same in Firefox previous to v3.5, as the drag-n-drop doesn’t work. … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

A fascinating post detailing the creation of a consistent visual identity of the BBC ’s online presence. Also, worth reading is the response from Paul Robert Lloyd . The use of big clunky Verdana for headings seems to have been phased out – hurrah! Comment on this … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

A fascinating post detailing the creation of a consistent visual identity of the BBC ’s online presence. Also, worth reading is the response from Paul Robert Lloyd . The use of big clunky Verdana for headings seems to have been phased out – hurrah! Comment on this … Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

Monospace text sizing is, from time to time, completely unintuitive and can be quite maddening if you don’t look at it in exactly the right way. Fortunately, there is a pretty simple workaround, and it’s one you might want to consider using even if you weren’t aware that a problem existed. But first, allow me to lay some foundations. Assuming no other author styles beyond the ones shown, consider the following: span {font-family: monospace;} <p>This is a ‘p’ with a <span>’span’</span> inside.</p> All right, what should be the computed font-size of the span element? Remember, there are no other author styles being applied. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

CSS3 features are making their way into the various browsers and while many are holding off on implementing them, there are those who are venturing ahead and likely running into a world of interesting quirks across the various platforms. Two such features that I have been having the pleasure of enjoying are the use of multiple backgrounds and CSS gradients. I’m covering both features because multiple backgrounds by itself is simple enough, as are CSS gradients, but combining the two is where things get interesting. Multiple Backgrounds What are multiple backgrounds when it comes to CSS? I mean the ability to define more than one background image for a single element. That sounds wonderful, doesn’t it… Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

CSS3 features are making their way into the various browsers and while many are holding off on implementing them, there are those who are venturing ahead and likely running into a world of interesting quirks across the various platforms. Two such features that I have been having the pleasure of enjoying are the use of multiple backgrounds and CSS gradients. I’m covering both features because multiple backgrounds by itself is simple enough, as are CSS gradients, but combining the two is where things get interesting. Multiple Backgrounds What are multiple backgrounds when it comes to CSS? I mean the ability to define more than one background image for a single element. … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

Leigh picked up a little gem from an antiques and curios shop in Burford, titled “The Internet A to Z”. This little tome was published in the year of our Lord 2000 (so possibly written in 1999), and it was interesting to see what difference 10 years makes. In particular, there were 2 very relevant entries: Opera …and then iCab… …ouch! … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

Leigh picked up a little gem from an antiques and curios shop in Burford, titled “The Internet A to Z”. This little tome was published in the year of our Lord 2000 (so possibly written in 1999), and it was interesting to see what difference 10 years makes. In particular, there were 2 very relevant entries: Opera …and then iCab… …ouch! … Read the rest here