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IE 6 is a last-generation browser. This means that IE 6 can’t provide the same web experience that modern browsers can. Continued support of IE 6 means that we can’t optimize our interfaces or provide an enhanced customer experience in our apps. Supporting IE 6 means slower progress, less progress, and, in some places, no progress. We want to make sure the experience is the best it can be for the vast majority of our customers, and continuing to support IE 6 holds us back.

37signals Product Blog: Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008

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“A couple years ago, I did a website for a large church organization that had dozens of menu items and many pages of content per menu item. They insisted on a Flash site where you never had to use the browser scroll, and at the same time, it should look just like an HTML site (which of course, begs the question, ‘Why are we using Flash?’). Needless to say, they ended up with a very cumbersome website that costs much more than an HTML site, both to build and maintain. Furthermore, visitors complained about the site usability, preferring even a simple text-only site where they could actually get the information they wanted. In general, you’d be surprised how often a visitor will take information accessibility over a great-looking Flash one. If your website’s primary purpose is delivering informational content, avoid Flash.”

6 Places that Flash Does Not Belong

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he’s right — this IS a sad truth:

The sad truth about CSS3 selectors is that they really shouldn’t be used at all if you care about page performance. Decorating your markup with classes and ids and matching purely on those while avoiding all uses of sibling, descendant and child selectors will actually make a page perform significantly better in all browsers.

CSS Qualified Selectors // ShaunInman.com:

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today was my last day working for imagenation, where i have been a web developer for just over a year.

i truly enjoyed working for mark williams, the principal there, who is kind, honest with his clients and his employees and whom i never saw get angry over the “small stuff”.

he was a joy to be employed by.

but i am moving on due to a fantastic offer that i simply could not refuse from SiteWelder, where i will once again be doing fulltime lasso development.

i am really excited about this new chapter in my life.

i am sitting here at my desk at home, which will be my office for the forseeable future.

given everything going well, i imagine being with SiteWelder for a long time to come.

here’s to the future!

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There is almost never a good reason for you to be validating someone else’s code. Usually, if you’re validating someone else’s code, it’s because you’re being an asshole.

Your markup validator

Technorati Tags: markup, programing, validator, webdev

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i am sick of bad web design.

people who know me well are already chuckling at me — knowing that bed web design is something i have been sick of since, oh, 1996 or so.

but just now i was trying to read a blog post.

i use NetNewsWire to read blog posts with, mostly, and it’s a fantastic product for numerous reasons, but one of the main ones is that it allows me to display blog posts using my own styles.

i have created a NNW style sheet for reading blogs with good typography, always the same style, always pleasant to read.

which gets me back to my point: most websites are downright lousy for actually reading.

i was just reading a wonderful article that is downright arduous to read simply because of how crappy the typography on the site i was reading it on is.

this is a shame.

i wish there was an easy, reliable, way to turn any crappy website into a well-laid-out, well-designed, easy-to-read website, the way i can read blog posts.*

* side note: i HATE when blogs only put part of a blog post in the part that shows up in my reader, and make me open the post in a web browser to read the whole thing.

fortunately, netnewswire allows me to do this easily, and without opening a new program, but sheesh — allow me to read the whole post in the reader and not in a web page.

ugh.

Technorati Tags: CSS, design, netnewswire, styles, webdesign, webdev

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in the flash 8 docs, we have this in example code:


this.createTextField(“myTxt”, 20, 0, 0, 100, 20);

now, i don’t know if flash allows parameter names, but this example is so unhelpful for newbies (like, the people reading docs) for so many reason.

what do all those numbers mean?

why aren’t they named like this?


this.createTextField(
name.“myTxt”, _depth.20, _x.0, _y0, _width.100, _height.20);

…or something?

how annoying.

Technorati Tags: actionscript, flash

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What’s nice about this new DOCTYPE, especially, is that all current browsers (IE, FF, Opera, Safari) will look at it and switch the content into standards mode - even though they don’t implement HTML5. This means that you could start writing your web pages using HTML5 today and have them last for a very, very, long time.

If nothing else, this should be a good excuse to look through the changes in HTML5 and familiarize yourself with what’s in the pipeline for browsers - Internet Explorer included.

John Resig - HTML5 DOCTYPE

Technorati Tags: doctype, html, HTML5, webdev

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/* Browser specific (not valid) styles to make preformatted text wrap */
code {
white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */
word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
}

Technorati Tags: CSS, webdesign, webdev

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twitterific errors, a lot.

i know it’s twitter’s fault, but i have errors set to “off” and it still notifies me, every single time.

it’s he of annoying.

also, the window never hides itself like it is supposed to.

gah.

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lots of unread items

Originally uploaded by berbercarpet

my netnewswire icon

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i have made a style for NetNewsWire:
The News<– Click to download.
Then double-click to install: NetNewsWire will ask if you want to install it.
~/Library/Application Support/NetNewsWire/StyleSheets/

Technorati Tags: netnewswire, styles, webdesign

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