It’s 2010 and Canadians pay the highest cell phone bills in the world | Wirelessnorth.ca | August 27
Just when I'd started feeling good about how things were changing in the local wireless market, too.
Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right | August 19
This might have been a bumpy but acceptable start to mobile Flash in 2006. Here in the back half of 2010, though, I have to wonder if Adobe really understands how screwed they are.
Are We Taking CSS Too Far? | August 16
My take: yes. These complicated CSS experiments are fun distractions, but ultimately empty calories. The future is SVG and canvas, and the sooner you're on board that train the further ahead you'll be.
Clarification | August 13
Regardless of whether you want to use HTML5 as a bucket term, or narrowly focus its usage to elements actually included in the spec, one thing's certain: CSS3 is not a part of HTML5. Period. (Bonus points for the Inigo Montoya video.)
The origins of abc | August 11
I Love Typography goes deep on the origins of the modern alphabet. There's an interesting history lesson here for anyone interested in type.
lab | simurai | August 9
Beautiful CSS3 technology demos. Another 'not great for practical purposes, but isn't this awesome?' use of the technology.
Pure CSS Icons: Make The Madness Stop | August 9
They make for nice tech demos, but with people starting to sell full CSS icon sets (really!) it does feel like some people are starting to mistake these for a valid use of the tech. We'll likely continue to see these for a while, but I suspect they'll die a quick natural death as Canvas picks up steam.
A CSS3 Tip
July 27I'm probably way behind the curve on this one, but I recently realized the following:
All browsers that support the CSS text-shadow and box-shadow properties also support the new CSS3 RGBa syntax. Which means you can safely combine them today.
That's handy, because it means no worrying about matching a precise hex colour shadow to a specific hex colour background. Instead just let the browser blend. An example:
p {
text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0 1px 0;
}That will produce a paragraph with a 20% opacity black drop shadow that will blend into any background colour below it. A paragraph like this one.
Previously I might have created the drop shadow in Photoshop, then used the eye dropper tool to pull out the composited shadow hex value after the transparency was applied to the background colour. No more!
