Archives for: "September 2009"

Links for September 27th

YUI Library: Storage Utility - Wraps various local storage options - HTML5, Gears and Flash - and provides a common API to all of them.Tags: Javascript; HTML5; Library;  Mark Finkle’s Weblog » Fennec – Let’s Build Some Add-ons - The Mozilla mobile b… more »

Standards.Next Cognition and Accessibility

Review: Standards.Next Cognition and Accessibility at City University, Room C343, Northampton Square, London, England EC1V 0HB 13:00 to 17:00 Last weekend I went to the second Standards.Next event, a whole afternoon devoted to talks and discussion rel… more »

Adventures in Web 3.0: Part 3 - More CSS 3

I talked about CSS3 in the last post in this semi-regular series on the web standards of the future, but there are some new features supported in the latest Chrome release and Firefox alpha which make this worth a second post. This time I'm going to foc… more »

Links for September 20th

pixelsnap - Project Hosting on Google Code - Export sharper bitmaps from Inkscape.Tags: Graphics; Software; Utility;  Eventually Consistent - Revisited - All Things Distributed - Detailed analysis of the trade-offs between consistency and availabili… more »

Links for September 13th

Alan Turing - Home Page - In honour of the original computer scientist making it into the mainstream news this week, a website all about Alan Turing.Tags: Computing; Science; History;  Learn.GitHub - A complete programme of tutorials on Git which is… more »

Links for September 6th

Git - SVN Crash Course - An introduction to the Git version control system targeted at Subversion users.Tags: Development; Tools; Tutorial;  Understanding vertical-align, or "How (Not) To Vertically Center Content" - A good explanation of the someti… more »

Arbitrary Element Rotation in IE - the Matrix Filter

There was a post on WebDesign-L today asking about angled text, which reminded me of the excellent Text Rotation with CSS a few months back on snook.ca. Jonathan focussed on the IE only BasicImage filter to provide an alternative to the (also proprietar… more »
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