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Clagnut Go to the source

Currently when you place an image (or any ‘replaced content’) inside a block with rounded corners set by -webkit-border-radius , the image pokes through the rounded corners on Safari (version 4.01 at the time of writing). Image breaking through rounded corners in Safari 4.01 The expected and desired behaviour is that the image be cropped by the rounded corners. This can be achieved by applying overflow:hidden to the container, as per my little test case . Image cropped at the rounded corners in Safari 4.01 As you can see it’s still not perfect as the image overlaps the border. However work is at hand to rectify the situation, which was seemingly caused by a vagueness in the CSS 3 Backgrounds and Borders module. On the CSS WG public mailing list it was resolved that “overflow:visible does not allow replaced content to overflow”… Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

Yes, it’s that time of year again. Time to set your alarms or calendar notifications as tickets for dConstruct go on sale this Monday at 11am. As always we’ve scoured the world to bring you an amazing line-up of speakers. People who educated, entertained and inspired us over the last couple of years. We’ve got insightful speakers like Adam Greenfield , author of “Everyware”, talking about ubiquity and location, or Russell Davies from Wired Magazine talking about the rise in post digital culture… Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

Yes, it’s that time of year again. Time to set your alarms or calendar notifications as tickets for dConstruct go on sale this Monday at 11am. As always we’ve scoured the world to bring you an amazing line-up of speakers. People who educated, entertained and inspired us over the last couple of years. We’ve got insightful speakers like Adam Greenfield , author of “Everyware”, talking about ubiquity and location, or Russell Davies from Wired Magazine talking about the rise in post digital culture. We’ve got entertaining and educational sessions like Nathan Shedroff and Chris Noessel ’s excellent talk about interaction paradigms in science fiction movies. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

Almost a month ago, I wrote about supporting older browsers — how and whether we should even support them. We draw a line in the sand that says, "You popular browsers, stand over here. Everybody else, just be happy you got content." More specifically, a base style sheet would declare some default font styles but no float or other layout tricks. Just linear content. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

The redesign for Authentic Jobs , which is coming along swimmingly thanks to your feedback, will include a blog to allow myself and others to post articles on the topic of employment, freelancing, and the like. The following is one such article. I’ve been bookmarking the links below over the past few months in anticipation of the new blog. However, because the redesign is taking longer than I had hoped, I’ve decided to post the article now given the timeliness of the subject. The last 6 months or so have been rocky for just about everyone and every business, and with layoffs and budget cutbacks, job search is certainly no exception. Many more applicants, but far fewer job openings… Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

I’ve been thinking about this for a long time and while I thought I had a solid opinion on the matter, I find myself waffling on the issue. Who cares about older browsers? If you haven’t done so, I highly recommend cracking out a copy of Firefox 1. Start bouncing around to a few sites and check out what’s broken. Sure, most stuff is fine but you’d probably be surprised at what’s broken… Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

It’s the honeymoon phase of learning a new platform. That part where you really enjoy the features that it offers. It’s fun and exciting. You’ve yet to discover all the weird quirks and limitations. This little screencast is of my little frolic through the fields that is Webkit in Titanium… Read the rest here

Mezzoblue Go to the source

If we hang out in the same online joints, and I think that we do, you probably also caught word of Jonathan Snook’s adoption headache last month, and the fundraising campaign he has been running to get some help. I donated when he first put up the page, but noticed that things have tapered off a little since then. They’re getting much closer to the adoption date and he’s still only a third of the way to his original goal. So I decided to help more: For the next two weeks, every dollar that comes in from any Chalkwork icon purchase will go to the Snook Adoption Fund. … Read the rest here

Clagnut Go to the source

I was proud to be a part of the Web Typography: Quit Bitchin’ & Get Your Glyph On! panel at SxSW 2009, along with Jon Tan, Ian Coyle, Elliot Jay Stocks and our super moderator Samantha Warren (photo above by Keith Muth ). Thanks very much to all those attendees who tweeted and contributed to the discussion with some great questions (including Håkon Wium Lie, the inventor of CSS no less). Apologies to the many folk who couldn’t get in. Typography panels are always really popular at SxSW, so it’s a shame we ended up in a relatively small room which had filled to capacity about 10 minutes before the start. … Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

One of the things that I’ve found mind-bendingly annoying about Leopard (besides its complete refusal to allow classic window management) is the “this file was downloaded from the internet, are you sure you want to open it?” dialog box. Yes, damn it: I just downloaded the file with the express intent of opening it. Stop bothering me. Keep it up and I might mistake you for PC . What’s even worse is that the dialog requires mouse input to get past. It would be just within the limits of acceptability if the dialog buttons responded to keyboard input; if I could hit command-O or something to invoke “Open”, then I’d probably keep the safeguard in place, because I could just charge past it with a quick twitch of the fingers. … Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

I was recently interviewed by the Independent on Sunday to get a design perspective on why Friends Reunited ultimately failed. However rather than the design of the site, I think the design of the system was ultimately to blame. Friends Reunited was one of the first “Social Networks” in the UK, long before the term had even been coined. Like all good web applications it made something that was difficult to do in the real world, incredibly easy. You could now re-connect with people from your past and spark up new friendships. It also tapped into two basic human traits; curiosity and gloating… Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

I was recently interviewed by the Independent on Sunday to get a design perspective on why Friends Reunited ultimately failed. However rather than the design of the site, I think the design of the system was ultimately to blame. Friends Reunited was one of the first “Social Networks” in the UK, long before the term had even been coined. Like all good web applications it made something that was difficult to do in the real world, incredibly easy. You could now re-connect with people from your past and spark up new friendships. It also tapped into two basic human traits; curiosity and gloating… Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

So, in what may be my last ‘media centre’ post, here’s a solution that I’ve finally found to work for me: a Playstation 3. This wasn’t in consideration until recently – I already have a Wii, which suits gaming on a family level really well. The Wii is small, white, minimal, fun and child friendly. The PS3 is a large high definition console for the serious gamers (which I am not). … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

My journey to find the ideal Media Centre has brought me via Plex and Boxee . Both are media center applications based on the popular open source XBox Media Center ( XBMC ), with Boxee focussing on the social network slant, and Plex solely on OS X integration. Plex has a very slick interface, and everytime I mention Boxee, there is the inevitable “Why not Plex?’ cry from other Mac users. At the moment, the answer is that Plex doesn’t yet offer me much over just using Front Row. The slick interface has more character than Front Row though, particularly in it’s use of online databases to provide metadata and large format photographs: It doesn’t always get the show/movie right however. The Secret Show recordings were believed to be ‘Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show’, and this couldn’t be manually removed… Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

The logic goes like this. The traditional marketing funnel is broken. You can’t just throw a bunch of money at an advertising campaign and have that turn into customers. At least not to the levels you could when there were just three channels or four channels of communication. The web and social media has changed all that. So rather than waiting for customers to come to you, you have to go to them and engage with them in the same way they engage with each other. … Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

How many times have you played out the following scenario? Makes local changes to your style sheet(s). Upload the changes to the staging server. Switch to your browser and hit “reload”. Nothing happens. Force-reload. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

After a wild couple days, it’s live. Well, live-ish. Blick Blocky Retro, the ninth iteration of this veritable site, has made its debut. Why? I’ve been working on this redesign for close to a year now. … Read the rest here

Mezzoblue Go to the source

Yes, it’s bothersome when my work is ripped off. I spend a lot of time crafting custom code, designing what I think are great layouts, illustrating or writing copy. And then some random person out there on the internet grabs my work and claims it as their own. If it hasn’t yet, this will happen to you. Many times. My favourite advice ever on the subject came from Jeffrey Zeldman: “Don

Snook Go to the source

It’s that time of year when people see the big number roll over and decide to reminisce over good times and bad, and talk of where they plan to go until the big number rolls again. This blog post will be no exception. On the Personal Front It’s interesting to look at last years pontificating . In some ways, things haven’t changed. … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

I’ve talked a lot about OS X apps recently, and I’m slightly nervous of doing it again so soon. Let me make it clear though, that I only blog about those that interest me, and for no other reason! I’ve mentioned before about creative spongery , and how I collect images, screenshots and type samples from the internets and shove them into iPhoto. I loved the idea of being able to use one app to do multiple jobs. After 3 years of doing this, I became bothered by having my photographs and family snaps in particular, mixed up with ‘work stuff’. iPhoto is an excellent app for storing though, so I decided to create a new iPhoto library and switch between the two. … Read the rest here