Posts filed under “Web”
Setting up compass stylesheet authoring framework in Ubuntu 10.10
In case it’s useful to other Ubuntu users, here’s a quick and painless way of getting the compass stylesheet authoring framework version 0.10.6 set up and ready to rock in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1 sudo gem1.9.1 install compass sudo echo “PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/bin:$HOME/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/bin” > /etc/profile.d/rubygems1.9.1.sh compass version I’m not a Ruby on Rails [...]
I’m closing my Amazon account
I hold freedom of speech and the press to be important, and find Amazon’s actions against Wikileaks to be cowardly. Whilst Amazon is entitled to do or not do business with customers as it chooses, I feel that if a business wishes to make profits via its customers it should respect their right to information, [...]
Google, please don’t let the Wave die out
Update: there is a campaign to save Google wave at http://www.savegooglewave.com/ Google Wave really struck me with its potential when I first saw what it was about. Adding the persistence of email to the real-time nature of instant messaging in an environment open to multiple participants was one of those things that now seems so [...]
Get up and running with @font-face
Here’s a very quick introduction to using the CSS fonts module intended for web designers who have a good knowledge of CSS but haven’t as yet experimented with @font-face rules. Internet Explorer 6 onwards and recent versions of all mainstream browsers support the CSS fonts module.
Web designers, “coding” and semantics
It seems a lot of web designers are under the notion that typing anything other than a natural language into a text editor or IDE counts as “coding”.
Firefox Personas for web designers
Firefox 3.6 brings with it native support for personas (“lightweight themes”) – an easy way of changing the basic appearance of the Firefox user interface. Here are four options available from Personas (which are an improvement on the cheapy Aero Windows look) that work well with Firebug and are neutral, tasteful and usable.
Introductory resources for learning about Linked Data (the “semantic web”) and RDFa
Including linked data in a machine-readable (as well as a human-readable) format blows open the possibilities of what we can do with it.
Hacking ‘paragraph spacing’ with CSS (despite IE)
I feel that now is a good time to finally start using more of the CSS2 and CSS3 goodness in my web page styling [...], so I’ll be testing these projects further with a view to settling on a solution.
Advising clients to ditch Internet Explorer
Now seemed like a good time to encourage clients to start using something other than Internet Explorer, so I’ve written the following email and will send it out to my web clients later today. Hello all I’m emailing my clients to recommend that they switch from Microsoft Internet Explorer to a more secure web browser [...]
The electric toothbrush – an example of graceful degradation
Even though it had either developed a fault or lost access to its power source, it degraded gracefully, allowing me to continue using it for its intended purpose.