Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Stop Hacking, or be Stopped
Dave Shea in his article Stop Hacking, or be Stopped on Vitamin has proposed the CSS hacking problem and it's consequences, proposing that browsers respond to CSS specs are different and will still be different as CSS specs it's self is evolving from 1 to 2 and now 3, so this problem has to come to an end as browsers will never respond to CSS the same way even different versions in the same browsers will not.
I think the solution in the hands of The W3C they should put a standard for all browsers manufacturers to use, so that CSS coders could specify a CSS file for a specific browser legitimately without hacking.
IE conditional comments is the method the IE team has developed for filtering CSS files to Win/IE here is a sample code of this method
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="ie-specific-file.css" />
<![endif]-->
This method could be a good start for the W3C to build a standard on, any way read Dave's article Stop Hacking, or be Stopped
posted by Point at 10:42 PM
Vitamin
Vitamin a great resource for designers, developers and entrepreneurs, including articles, training, interviews from well known designers and developers like Dan Cederholm, Shaun Inman, Eric Meyer, Dave Shea & Molly. Brought to you by Carson Systems.
Today I read a great article titled How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design? that focuses on 4 aspects that designers often forget which are contrast, repetition, alignment & Proximity.
What are you waiting for, go get some Vitamin ;)
posted by Point at 10:42 PM
Google calender
posted by Point at 10:41 PM
PersonalDNA
Yesterday Rida Al Barazi told me about PersonalDNA, you just answer some questions distributed on 10 pages then it gives you your personal DNA report, I was extremely surprised by the result I couldn't describe my self better it's really very accurate, actually you may learn about your self and understand new things about your self and relations with others.
They described me as concerned creator, go on take the test and tell us how did they describe you or put your DNA in a comment here, and if you have enough courage to link to your PersonalDNA report go for it :)
After you finish the test they will give you a description in two words and another long description about your self and about how you relate to others and they will give you a box shaped DNA like mine shown below and a DNA strip that you could put on your blog or just share with your friends.
And it also helps in understanding coworkers actions and behaviors and help letting individuals of one group understand each others more and communicate better.
posted by Point at 10:40 PM
CSS Naked Day
In the spirit of promoting Web Standards along with good semantic markup and proper hierarchy structure, Dustin Diaz will start the first annual CSS naked day on 5th April.
Who has the courage to take off his CSS for a day and show his <body> to every one, check the naked page to see how can you participate and a list of all participants.
I'm in with Point & FRESH PX, see us naked next Wednesday.
posted by Point at 10:39 PM
Today solar eclipse, don't miss it
Total eclipse photo by Juanjaen from Universidad de Barcelona.
Partial eclipse photo by Koalie from Cannes.
Don't miss it today, as it will not be repeated again till maybe 2017, and as you know avoid looking directly at the sun as it may damage your eyes.
For folks here in Egypt it will begin on 12:38 PM (GMT +2:00) it will be 80% partial in Cairo and total in Saloom , I will post photos as soon as I can.
Coverage:
posted by Point at 10:37 PM
