basketweaving for the mind

A question from a recent workshop given by my colleague in evangelism, Delicategenius (please note: I was merely the apprentice to the sorcerer in this workshop) Q: How do you add elements and attributes in the CSS/Developer Tools of Internet Explorer...

Yay! Internet Explorer 8 gets closer to final release . A Release Candidate is what happens after a beta release. Microsoft thinks its ready for prime time, but until the rest of the world tests this under live fire, we are never 100% sure. So, please...

A common question from Web developers is: “ when in IE6 going to die?” Yesterday, visiting the developers behind a large Australian web site, we had a squiz (translated: squiz is Australian for look ) at browser use statistics. One highlight was during...

No matter your political standing, the election and inauguration of Barak Obama is a moment for all time. Even if you are not a US citizen, like myself, you probably watched (or saw) the ceremony. Crowdsourcing digital images from the front of the millions...

Microsoft Tag renders vector version of the colourful tag. This is not conducive to easy use on the web. A question from @cameronreilly of The Podcast Network via twitter: how do you actually make the Tag useful? One of the coolest things on MacOS...

Long Zheng, over at istartedsomething.com has conducted more experiments with the new Microsoft Tag . In this blog post , Long has tested Tags that are not just colourul (that is: RGB/CMYK) And with great success! From Long’s tests, he states that...

Yesterday, Microsoft released a new piece of technology in beta: Microsoft Tag . When you start seeing strangely coloured boxes such as the following around the place: it is time to get the mobile client (yes, iPhone included) 2D barcodes are not...

Holidays over . Time to return to work! Crisis! How to get back into the tempo of work? Ease in via HTML and CSS. Both this blog, and my personal blog were sorely in need of a makeover. Plastic surgeons use scalpels, working for Microsoft: I am going...