On 04.29.10, In Fonts, by Lucica Ibanescu
For the font maniacs that would like to improve the web’s boring look with some new fancy fonts, here’s a list with great free retro fonts that will improve your website design.
2. Riesling
3. Lemonchicken
On 04.26.10, In CSS & CSS3, by Lucica Ibanescu
Very simple problem with a pretty complicated solution, mostly because IE is ignoring the box-shadow CSS3 property. Instead progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow is doing the trick for it and an equivalent can be found.
The result?
I am sure you all know about Mictosoft’s IE9 Testdrive. Its main target was, for now, the developer – in an attempt to showcase the improvements in IE9 and maybe make us be more nice to them and forget how much time we waste with IE6.
What I was interested as a frontend developer was the the compatibility tables for features like SVG, CSS3 and DOM. And the test results, as per Microsoft’s page, are all gorgeous.
I have recently discovered an interesting blog and while reading one of its posts I firmly believed Julio, the author, read my mind. I translated it with his help and with the help of Alex & Gillian Meldrum and here it is for you to read and enjoy. When quoting for work, we seem to [...]
On 10.30.09, In Submitted news, by Lucica Ibanescu
Today ICANN approved the Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process which means we soon will see Internet addresses containing non-Latin characters. That is a fair thing to do since maybe half of the world population is not writing with latin characters. The process will begin on November 16th and will allow nations to apply for [...]
Today’s website is a free online tool for creating Flash websites. The steps to complete a beautiful Flash website are: create your account choose your free template customize it publish it enjoy it. The free templates that you can edit from are really beatiful and if you explore their gallery you can see that the [...]
There’s no reason for our Google Maps to look ugly because of the icons Google used to offer. Now have become available a huge number of icons offered by Nico Mollet under the Creative Commons 3.0 license. The cherry on the cake is that they give away everything related to these icons so everybody can [...]
On 10.07.09, In Submitted news, by Lucica Ibanescu
Today was a great day for Microsoft…or not. The company finally reached a deal with the European Commision in the never ending fight concerning Microsoft attempts to impose IE as a unique browser for Windows and not willing to help the developers build compatible software with MS products. The measures that Microsoft will take are [...]
Styling a form is never an easy thing to do, but adding CSS3 on a HTML5 form is a task that shows a large variety of results when it comes to testing on different browsers. Check the test link.
When it comes to CSS3 not much can be done: but adding rounded corners, gradients and dropshadows is still more than nothing anf the overall aspect of the form is waaaaaaaaay better. But HTML5 is supported by few browsers (this HTML form only by Opera) and CSS3 also by few broswers – but different from the one supporting HTML5.
What can you answer to your client when you try to explain that your code is semantic, crossbrowser and…accessible and your client asks you “Good for you you’re coding accessible websites, but do you actually know any blind user?” Meaning, why should someone care about how you code a site as long as table-based code is still ok and cheap?
Well…you may remain speechless. Cause I really don’t know any blind person nor a person using assistive technology altough I do know people that need to increase the font-size or lower the screen resolution to be able to read better. But even if I did not “see” one that should not mean they don’t exist – but how can this be proved?