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Interesting links or quick ideas which don’t require any comment from me.
Interesting links or quick ideas which don’t require any comment from me.
My very kind and understanding bosses have just agreed to pay for me to attend this year’s @Media event in London, on May 29th-30th. If any readers are likely to attend, drop me a line and we could meet up to say hello.
When learning CSS I relied heavily on Index Dot Css, a comprehensive guide to CSS support in browsers. It’s still very useful, although sadly not updated since October 2003. After that I turned to W3Schools CSS Reference (when I didn’t have my copy of the CSS Pocket Reference to hand); it’s nicely laid out and […]
It looks like Microsoft are giving a big push to get users of IE6 upgraded to IE7; the browser is included in the latest Automatic Update, and when opening IE6 this morning I was automatically redirected to a splash page promoting IE7 and encouraging me to download it. I wonder what effect this will have […]
After complaints from the web community about lack of transparency in the development of the next Internet Explorer, and a little browbeating from Molly Holzschlag, Bill Gates says there is no “deep secret” about what they’re doing with IE, and the IE team have responded by releasing the detail we’ve all been waiting for: the […]
How many HTML elements can you name in five minutes? Sounds like it should be easy, but after the initial burst your mind suddenly goes blank. I only got a rather shameful 45…
Short and interesting slide presentation (with summary) from the guys at Campaign Monitor on the general state of HTML email since 1998, and it’s potential for the future: The future of email design. I’m really looking forward to the launch of the email standards project, as HTML emails give me a pain in the neck.
Mark Boulton Design have been selected to redesign drupal.org, the website of the Drupal CMS. I’m a big admirer of Mark’s writing about design and typography, and I think it’s exciting that a big open-source project is going in this direction.
Now, if we could get him to design the Drupal user interface (as Veerle Pieters is doing with Expression Engine), that would really be something.
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