Posts Tagged: Web Development
Interesting chart mapping the life, death, and popularity of web browsers over time. I haven’t seen this type of presentation before.
Posted by on Sunday, April 17, 2011 in - 2 comments
Updated the previous post with a link to the presentation video: A Brief History of Mozilla.com (and .org)
Posted by on Saturday, April 16, 2011 in - 1 comment
Live from Mozilla: A Brief History of Mozilla.com (and .org)
Posted by on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 in - 1 comment
Reporting today on location in sunny Mountain View, California and the lovely Mozilla headquarters. • I’m doing a talk in the Mozilla lounge about the history of the mozilla websites called A Brief History Mozilla.com (and .org) today (April 12, 2011) at 12:30PM Pacific time (4:30pm Atlantic … read more »
If you’re a web developer, take a few minutes to complete the Mozilla Developer Network survey.
Posted by on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 in
Font Beauty in Firefox 3.next
Posted by on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 in - 4 comments
An exciting (to me) video walkthrough of the font control options coming Firefox 3.6 and/or 3.7:
Virtual Hearts & Virtual Minds
Posted by on Thursday, October 8, 2009 in
Want to build a social network for the Middle East or North Africa? The US State Department may have $500,000 to $2,500,000 for you.
10 Years of silverorange
Posted by on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 in - 8 comments
Our beloved little web development company, silverorange, was incorporated ten years ago today (August 11, 1999). • I’m looking forward to the next ten years.
The Emperor’s New Close
Posted by on Monday, July 20, 2009 in - 5 comments
A quick tip for those designing web interfaces with an “X” icon for a “Close” element. Rather than the letter “x” (or capital “X”), use the multiplication (U+2715) or heavy multiplication (U+2715) symbols. • There’s no semantic advantage as neither the letter X nor the ✕ symbol have the …
Captcha’s Used Against Us With Comic Results
Posted by on Monday, June 15, 2009 in - 2 comments
I’ve always been bothered by the idea behind captchas (those weird looking things you have to type in to create an account on some sites). I resent that they make us, the good guys, prove that we’re good guys (or that we’re human, in this case). I feel the same way about having to lock my car, but …
Nerd Tip: Bicubic Client-Side Image Scaling in Internet Explorer 7
Posted by on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 in - 6 comments
Joel Spolsky points out a non-standard CSS extension that forces Internet Explorer 7 to re-size images much more smoothly (like Firefox and Safari do by default): • “img { -ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic; }” • It’s unfortunate that this is not the default behaviour, but at least it can be …