There’s been a lot of discussion and hot air in the blogosphere the last couple of weeks on the issue of table-based layouts vs css layouts. I think Andy Budd started it with his Objective Look at Table Based vs … Continue reading
Month: May 2004
Full Scale and the Pink Handbag
Went to see Full Scale last night, one of my favourite bands. Their drummer Crutey used to work for PerthWeb, a million years ago. The sound in the venue sucked… there wasn’t much of a crowd as the headliners, Sunk … Continue reading
Web Essentials 04
Be inspired by the world’s leading web standards gurus. How’s that for an opening sentence? It’s from the Web Essentials 04 conference, announced on the Web Standards Group mailing list yesterday. Yes folks, Dave Shea, Douglas Bowman and Joe Clark, … Continue reading
Color Scheming
I really suck at picking colors, and I have hideous taste – this blog isn’t the only thing of mine that’s lime green and orange. But I keep trying anyway… with this huge list of color scheming tools: Eric Meyer’s … Continue reading
Damn, I missed it
I saw a post that there was a “macrochat” with Ben Forta and other CF peoples this morning, 6am EST, which would mean 4am local Perth time. I wasn’t going to get up because I got up for the worldwide … Continue reading
Son of Suckerfish
This is just sweet. Patrick Griffiths and Dan Webb’s original Suckerfish DropDown menus were pretty awesome. But now they’re even better. The new version has support for multiple levels, and even less JavaScript, if you can believe that. It terrifies … Continue reading
A fascination with forbidden locations
I wrote previously about StumbleUpon, right? I’m still loving it. The most interesting site I came across this week is Infiltration, which bills itself as a “zine about going places you’re not supposed to go”. They have all sorts of … Continue reading
Phil Greenspun on Java
Java is the SUV of programming tools is the title of a great post by MIT’s Philip Greenspun. I love the analogy: But the programmers and managers using Java will feel good about themselves because they are using a tool … Continue reading