Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
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…
New features in Gecko 1.9
Gecko is the rendering engine used in browsers such as Firefox, SeaMonkey, Camino, Epiphany, Netscape, and more.
The next version (1.9, currently available as a preview release) introduces a whole load of new features and fixes to the engine. In my last post I mentioned the speed increase thanks to the move to a new graphics layer […]
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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