December 2006
Christmas Package Tracking
Posted by on Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 10 comments
Package Contents: Christmas gifts for my entire family • Package Status: In transit • Current Package Location: UPS shipping facility, Lachine, Quebec (a little under 1,000 kilometers from my house) • Scheduled Delivery: December 28 • Bah: Humbug
Scaling Images in Firefox 3
Posted by on Thursday, December 14, 2006 in - 23 comments
After making the post about smooth corners in Firefox 3 yesterday, I began to wonder what other smoothnesses (which should be a word) the next version of Firefox might have in store. • As I mentioned yesterday, the Cairo graphics library will power the rendering of web pages in Firefox …
Cairo Corners in Firefox 3
Posted by on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 in - 8 comments
The latest alpha releases of Firefox 3 use a library called “Cairo” for much of the graphics work (note: I don’t understand exactly what that means, but it doesn’t matter). • Thanks to this new graphics infrastructure, boxes with corners rounded by the pre-CSS 3 property border-radius are …