Recently
February 14, 2006Whoops, it’s been a while. Still alive. A few things flying across my radar lately:
- CSS Problem Solving Survey
One of the SXSW panels I’m sitting on this year needs some help from you. Got a particularly thorny CSS problem? Go tell us about it, and we might have a solution for you in March. Ethan Marcotte has more information about the panel.
Speaking of SXSW, if you haven’t booked your hotel/flight by now, um, see you next year.
- Yahoo Does Something Wonderful
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To kick off the new Yahoo UI Blog with a bang, Yahoo has opened up a whole bunch of other UI-related stuff, free of charge. Like the Design Patterns Library, a collection of common solutions to UI problems. Or the Yahoo UI Library, a collection of Javascript for common UI components.
And finally, something which is sure to become an instant favourite amongst those who argue for/against bending over backwards to support specific browsers, Yahoo’s Graded Browser Support and their corresponding Support Chart. Practical, well-explained guidelines that you can use immediately, as put out by a major technology company — print them out, give them to your clients or boss, and rest easy. Yahoo’s done the tough explaining for you. Fantastic.
- IE7 Beta 2 Preview
- Not beta 2. Beta 2 preview. Meaning, expect a lot of change, and more preview releases, before the final version of IE7. Eric Meyer/Douglas Adams said it best: don’t panic.
- Unitless line-heights
- Speaking of Eric Meyer, check out this explanation of
line-height. I had no idea. (This is the same bug I wrote about in October, mind you.) - Eqo
- Last night I caught a technology preview of this new mobile service. It’s still pretty beta, but in a nutshell: Skype on your mobile phone. ie., never pay another cent to your long distance carrier. Lots of caveats at the moment, but definitely one to watch.
- Photoshop transform handles out of reach
- Once again, Veerle has an Adobe tip that’s going to save me a lot of time. No more zooming out to 8.25%.
- NetDiver Best of the Year, 2005
- Pure design inspiration.
Hmm.. a conglomerate of links?… on Mezzoblue? Could this be a resurgance of the muchly viewed (at least by me) Mezzoblue Dailies? I hope :D
- Sadly, viewing from IE7 (I’m Previewing!)
Well, I kind of miss having a place for link dumps like this. But ‘Dailies’ became the wrong term for the weekly (or worse) postings. So I might just do this periodically instead. We’ll see.
Hey Dave, welcome back.
Thanks for the link to my Graded Browser Support article. It was a bit buried in the other stuff we released yesterday, but I’m glad you found it! I’ll be highlighting it later this week on http://www.yuiblog.com
I thought we already have IE 7 Beta 2. Or am i missing something here ?
Dave, thanks for the heads up on the Yahoo UI think… “design patterns” has been on my list of stuff to formally study/read up on for about a year now, after a potential contracting client mentioned how the theory was being applied to UI design…
SXSW - how I’d love to go…
Thanks for the pointer to the NetDiver Best of the Year, that’s some mouse-twitchingly, brain-whirringly good stuff.
@Trevor - nope, we have a preview of Beta 2 :)
for information a french compagny “9 telecom” are trying to do the same thing as eqo not with skype but whis is opensource voip service wengo http://www.openwengo.com/ and a quadriplay service
http://www.beautifulphone.com/html/en/
I must say the Yahoo’s UI website is great for ajax n00bs
So Dave, are you saying it’s officially time to remove the Dailies feed from my RSS reader?
Fabian: Gear down! Your website is using Ajax!
Jeff: He removed the Dailies a few months back, but I still wouldn’t remove it completely. There was a some good stuff in there that might be worth revisiting sometime.