Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
CushyCMS Review
CushyCMS is a very simple, nice idea for allowing users to edit content on their website without giving them access to the templates. It doesn’t allow changes to mark-up or style sheets, only titles, images and blocks of copy.
It requires that the site admin marks up the blocks that will be editable by adding class=”cushycms” to […]
Who can hook me up with twine?
Does anybody have a spare invitation to twine they’d be willing to send my way? I’m very curious to see what it’s all about.
Mozilla Prism: Am I missing something?
Although they didn’t create the concept, Mozilla popularised tabbed browsing with the release of Firefox. Tabbed browsing is, of course, a very good thing; the old IE model of having a separate window for every instance of a site you open became unmanageable when computers got more powerful and websites no longer slowed down the […]
Bringing out the GIMP
As an Ubuntu user at home, I don’t have the option of installing imaging software such as Photoshop. Luckily, the best free and open-source alternative, GIMP, has just released a new version - and it’s fantastic.
While it doesn’t perhaps have quite the myriad of features that Adobe’s product does, it does have every tool I’ve ever […]
Bloglines moves backwards with Ajax
I’ve used Bloglines for a long time to organise the many (too many?) feeds I read daily. I’ve always been happy with it, resisting the charms of new kids on the block such as Google Reader, but recently there’ve been some changes I find have taken the service a few steps backwards.
9 ways ColdFusion 8 will rule web development
9 ways ColdFusion 8 will rule web development. I like Coldfusion; I was forced into using it when I started my current job, and I found it very easy to pick up and get along with. However, as long as it remains proprietary and you have to pay upwards of £3,500 for the server edition, […]
Aside
It was announced on the HTML Working Group mailing list this morning that the font element will be absent from the next draft of the HTML5 specification. The inclusion of font in the spec was controversial, as many (including myself) thought it was a purely decorative element that had no place in semantic code.
Of course, browsers will still have to support the element because of the many legacy sites on the web; but as of now any software that generates mark-up should use the style attribute instead. It’s a small increment better.
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