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Matt is an English web designer based in Great Britain.
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Every now and then I like to string together a series of interesting video's I've found on the internet to share with you. The last one was "A celebration of the internet pt.4". As usual, this one starts off with a little music.continue reading
I've already argued that CSS needs to borrow from programming languages, and I wonder if the arguments designers and developers are getting into over the future of CSS have a more fundamental cause than the one's debated so far. To my mind the crux of the issues is this: CSS currently operates on top of the Document Object Model - a base that is ill suited for the job CSS is asked to perform, namely, the visual presentation of a webpage. We need to stop using the DOM as the basis for visual tasks. Sounds odd, but please hear me out.continue reading
Adaptive Path are working with Mozilla to produce concept video's for far-future internet browsers. While this is interesting, I can't help but feel that the first showcase of Aurora misses the mark by a country mile.continue reading
I sparked off something of a discussion on one of the forums I frequent when I wrote about Amazon's Kindle e-reader, my post was this:continue reading
Today was a bird Karma day. One pooped on me at some point in the morning, which was bad. But just before home-time, two baby ducks waddled into the View Creative offices to say hello. That was good.continue reading
A very old adage as true today as it ever was. Here are a couple of considerations for the discerning print designer looking into becoming a good web designer.continue reading
Use sentence-style capitalization in titles and headlines.continue reading
Last time I shared some of my favourite dance tracks. Today I thought I'd share a few of my favourite metal tracks. There's a rather large skew toward Nightwish, but that's because they are absolutely brilliant. And you need not think metal means nothing but shouting and thudding. There is a very good reason why you can take a metal track, strip it of drums and vocals, have an orchestra play it, and have it sound amazing: good metal is good music, there's a lot of intricacy in it.continue reading
On many levels this is a good idea, however it doesn't address the main problem: it's not the software or network that's weak, it's technology-incompetent and complacent MPs and civil servants.continue reading
A quarter of the adult population faces an "anti-paedophile" test in an escalation of child protection policies, according to a report.continue reading
A selection of noteworthy links I've recently discovered…
PHP 4.4.9 was rolled out today, and marks the end of development for PHP4. So everyone jump to PHP5, now. PHP5.3 alpha was released today and includes namespaces; a feature planned for PHP6, but apparently pulled forward.
Cuil is a new search engine with a larger index than Google, built by former Google employees. It’s very interesting. Here are my first impressions:
I’d love to see the numbers behind this, considering their market sector. At last, IE6 is starting to die!
This goes one step further than my usual approach. Normally I include the browser chrome in the graphic, so the design has context. This idea is even better and I can’t believe I’ve not thought of it myself.
The much anticipated release of the third version of the best browser in the world didn’t go particularly smoothly.
I bet they wished they had heard of pressing F11 in Firefox. And then Ctrl+Tab to switch tabs. Would have saved them a whole lot of time.
Just discovered Julia Nunes, who plays great songs on her ukulele, and has a personality I would kill for. I just hope that Brigitte Dale doesn’t find out that I’m two timing my crushes on her.
Very handy for web developers. Just choose the engine and see how IEx renders it. A lot less hassel than a Virtual Machine.
Rather than hosting your own copy of jQuery (or any other popular framework) simply use Google’s hosted copy instead. Their network is faster than yours, and if enough sites do it then visitors are likely to have it cached already.
Jonathon Snook talks about the social difficulties in going freelance, and how to avoid going days on end without any real human interaction.
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