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Web Directions @media 2010

Peter — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:50:11 +0000

Usually when I attend @media (that is, on two previous occasions) I write a follow-up blog post on what I saw there. Well I attended this year, and I’ve written the post, but it’s on the blog of my employer, Preloaded: HTML5, Mobile, and UCD: what we saw at @media.

An updated studio-style backdrop with CSS3

Peter — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:43:20 +0000

I’ve updated my post, Create a studio-style backdrop with CSS3, as I realised a way to do the reflection without requiring an extra image — using the scale transformation function to flip the image vertically.

The demo works in Firefox and WebKit.

Help wanted: Webkit multi-columns

Peter — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:09:51 +0000

I’m writing about the CSS3 Multi-column layout module and I notice that WebKit supports a series of proprietary properties: –webkit-column-break-after, –webkit-column-break-before, and –webkit-column-break-inside. However, despite the documentation saying that they’re implemented in Safari 3+, I can’t seem to get any of them to work.

Has anyone reading this ever seen an example of these in action? I’ve searched for demos but have found nothing. If you know anything about this, please leave me a comment; your help would be gratefully appreciated.

The Uncanny Valley and Realism in UI Design

Peter — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:54:01 +0000

Last year I began exploring the idea of the uncanny valley as it applies to creating prototypes, using a panel from Understanding Comics as an illustration. Lukas Mathis at UX Magazine has had a similar idea, but explored it in much more depth and with greater clarity.

Opera 10.5 has support for CSS transforms

Peter — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:28:30 +0000

The Opera team have released a very early preview of their next browser, which features an updated version of their Presto rendering engine. Opera 10.5 will support CSS transforms and transitions, so I’ve updated the demos on my old post, Anime with CSS and WebKit, to reflect that.

Mozilla release Bespin Embedded preview

Peter — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:27:07 +0000

Mozilla’s Bespin is a code editor built using web technologies. It’s still in its infancy, but shows promise. A new release, Bespin Embedded, lets you use the basic editor functionality on your own websites, using just a couple of lines of Javascript. If you don’t want to download it yourself, I’ve got a working demo. The editor doesn’t really do much at the moment, so this is really only a proof of concept.

Opera widgets become browser-independent

Peter — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:25:55 +0000

This is a nice idea: Opera have separated their widgets from the desktop browser, allowing them to be run as standalone applications. They are cross-platform and standards compliant. You can download a Labs release to try it for yourself.

Introducing the Flexible Box Layout module

Peter — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:03:37 +0000

I’ve got a new post up at CSS3.info: Introducing the Flexible Box Layout module. It’s an overview of an alternative layout module which is already implemented in Gecko and WebKit.

QA Style Sheet

Peter — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:27:33 +0000

This is such a clever idea: a stylesheet which highlights common HTML problems, helping you QA your sites before you publish them. Nice work by Jens Meiert.

Misunderstanding markup

Peter — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:22:20 +0000

Misunderstanding Markup: an explanation of the different flavours of HTML & XHTML, in comic strip form, by Brad Colbow. I’m not sure if it makes Jeremy Keith’s original blog post any easier to understand, but it’s certainly more fun to look at.