Do line breaks really exist?
I’ve been working hard for Uni these last few weeks, but before I run up north for a few days, something has been playing on my mind for a while.
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@media - in (very) brief
I rather luckily got a place at the @media conference in cloudy London yesterday, and had a fantastic time learning more web design from some supremely talented and entertaining speakers.
New Screens
- New Screens
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- Uploaded by Ben Ward.
I’ve been wanting a dual screen set up for simply ages now. We’ve had two screens at work pretty much since we started and I’m hooked to point of clinical dependency.
They seek him there...
I’ve not finished the @media write up yet. I need to do it tomorrow or else it’ll be too far after the event to even be considered ‘token’.
CSS for designers
Here’s a question for web designers. It’s a bit of a clich� question and I’m not advocating it at all, I’m purely curious.
The problem of designing without colour
@Media 2005
I’m probably the last of the ~400 delegates to complete their ‘proper’ @media write up, but I shan’t be discouraged. I may, of course, sound like an old record.
The glorious ‘first time’
This was my first conference. I don’t have the money to afford such things and won’t have for a number of years. However, thanks to a stroke of luck, some jammy holiday planning and selfless generosity on the part of Steve Marshall I got a place. That’s Steve who still doesn’t have a blog to link to, by the way.Things that make you feel old #1
As of yesterday, I own a lawnmower. This seems very, very wrong (although since the one provided by our landlord had smoke coming from it, it is ultimately very right).First thoughts on Microformats
John Oxton has posted about the rather spiffy new Microformats specifications which are starting to grow in maturity and usefulness. John’s initial reaction goes like this:
My initial impression of Microformats from logging on to the site was that this was some major new technology, so technical is the blog and Wiki. I was a little surprised then to learn it was “just” XHTML after all. First on my Microformats wish list then, get someone on the blog that can communicate with us lower level geeks!
The current state of Microformats is, sadly, very much ‘not for lower level geeks’ (God forbid the general populace). The specifications are newborn and, not to be too much of an apologist, time is needed for the specs to mature more and for people to really understand and communicate their usefulness in practice. I hope it wont take long.Gmail translated into (proper) British English
As a native English speaker, I tend to accept the Americanisms on the internet and will instinctively ignore anything on a web page offering alternative languages. British English (or ‘English’, as I like to call it) is hardly a localisation priority if your site already has a US English translation that everyone can read, right?