Using box-shadow to draw: Amazing http://css-tricks.com/examples/ShapesOfCSS/#space-invader

Trying to read a YUDU ‘magazine’ reminds me exactly why I uninstalled Flash. It’s bloody hideous.

Some great tips on designing for TV screens: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/tv/device-considerations/designing-for-tv/display-diagnostics

Actually the whole Gel thing is worth reading.

Woah. Flickr’s new uploadr is nice

@boagworld @idiot “Want to get on better with clients? Stop throwing your font-weight around”

@boagworld’s ‘Partnership of Experts’ should be required listening, especially for young web people

http://calepin.co/ looks like a brilliant no-effort intro #indieweb.

Your content is stored on DropBox (so you still own it) but I don’t think there are any syndications options (might be twitter?), but you can use your own domain, and you have access

What’s the point of HTML5 nice table syntax if you can’t use it in ATOM feeds? Bah.

Opera implementing -webkit prefixes is only as big a deal as we make it. Provided we don’t say ‘hey, it’s alright to only use -webkit now’ there’s no problem.

The Facebook API is more feature filled than @twitterapi, but WAY slower.

Something I learnt just now: HTML <ins> and <del> have datetime attrs for keeping track of changes.

This is handy as I’ve been wondering about those for a while. Interestingly they have a cite attr too (to a URL describing changes made) w

Argh, coming up with a solid file upload backend that will scale to indefinite file types is tricky #indieweb

TheOnion.com devs have clearly never heard of progressive enhancement - their ‘5 page per day max’ limit only works with javascript turned on.

??? the marquee tag has JS methods?! Was it not bad enough already?

I’ve recently started using these styles for adding automargins (margic = magic + margin) to floated items:

.floatLeft.margic { margin-right: 1em; }
.floatRight.margic { margin-left: 1em; }

This looks almost awesome enough to make me switch to FF for web dev stuff: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/07/tilt-visualize-your-web-page-in-3d/

JScript has conditional comments too. Is use of this advisable? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_comment

@scrunchup I keep on losing web design work on the premise that I don’t do it for free — any advice on how to fix this?

The more I read about HTML tables, the more I feel using them for layout wasn’t doing them justice :|

What do you think? Too much CSS3 border-image? #web #design #css #borderimage