Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
Exploring The Web Developer Toolbar
If you use Firefox and Chris Pedrick’s invaluable Web Developer extension, this should be very useful to you: 10 Things You May Not Know About the Web Developer Toolbar. I hadn’t seen the ‘View Color Information’ option before; it’s amazing!
IE Alternatives to Firebug
Firefox is very likely the browser of choice for many web developers, and with one very good reason: Firebug, which is, IMHO, hands-down the most important web development tool around. Seriously, if you haven’t tried Firebug, you’re probably wasting a lot of development time.
It’s so good, Yahoo! have created a full-time position just to develop it. […]
Mozilla gets native video support
Mozilla’s Chris Double has announced on his blog that he’s implemented the (proposed) HTML5 <video> element in a build of Firefox (demo screencast). The element will natively support OGG Theora files.
While I think this is great news and has a lot of potential, I foresee one major obstacle to this becoming standard: proprietary codecs. If they […]
CSS in emails, HTML vs XHTML, and more
I’m back from my holiday, with a quick look at some of the links I would have discussed in more detail had I been here…
Dynamic Text Replacement
An introductory tutorial to Dynamic Text Replacement. The formatting of the page could be better, but it’s a well-written guide.
I’ve started using the sIFR method on a few sites, and it’s pretty useful; it does introduce a whole new set of challenges to your development, however - notably with the use of z-index and transparency, especially […]
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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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