Domenica, 19 gennaio 2003

Fixing a hole I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in and keeps my mind from wandering 4:38:43 PM    comment [] trackback []

Uso avanzato del pannello font di Mac OS X Nel Blog di Ken Bereskin, uno dei programmatori di Mac OS X, si leggono interessanti suggerimenti, con tanto di screenshot sulle feature più o meno nascoste del pannello font di Mac OS X. Possiamo agire in vari modi sulle dimensioni del carattere nonché visualizzare e personalizzare l'anteprima. The system font panel is a very flexible user interface for selecting and managing collection of fonts. Whenever I demo this to even seasoned Mac OS X users, they are blown away by the flexibility. All Cocoa applications use the font panel implicitly and with the Jaguar release, Carbon applications can add it to their feature set. Here's a series of screen shots that show the flexibility of the panel. [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog] 4:08:47 AM    comment [] trackback []

The one I've never tried. I am now using mod_rewrite-based browser sniffing to work around CSS bugs in different browsers. I am aware that this is a complete reversal from my position last week, when I claimed that CSS hackery was the lesser of two evils. To (mis)quote Mae West: "Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried." (274 words) [dive into mark] 2:54:54 AM    comment [] trackback []

Body IDs. My page logo is identical on all pages (it's patched in with server-side includes), but I've always wanted a way to distinguish it on different pages. But, I don't want to maintain half a dozen different stylesheets either. I finally figured out how to do it. (177 words) [dive into mark] 2:53:55 AM    comment [] trackback []

W3C Launches Timed Text Working Group. 17 January 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Timed Text Working Group (TTWG) within the SYMM (Synchronized Multimedia) Activity. The TTWG is chartered to develop an XML based format used to represent streamable text synchronized with timed media like audio or video. Movie captions on the Web are a typical timed text application. Read the group's charter and more about the Synchronized Multimedia Activity. (News archive) [World Wide Web Consortium] 12:35:41 AM    comment [] trackback []