In a post I wrote almost a year ago (and in the ensuing comments), I pondered the possibility of someday being able to define variables natively in a CSS document without the use of server-side scripting.
Well it seems that in their most recent nightly build, WebKit has added support for this.
@variables {
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A nice surprise just hit my feed reader. Microsoft has just released the Windows Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit, a micro-site containing download links for IE8 beta 1 as well as useful information for web developers.
I’m not sure, but I think I’m actually getting really excited about this release. While I haven’t installed the beta [...]
Microsoft does the right thing. Web developers’ heads explode in surprise.
Published March 5th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsFor those who haven’t been following the recent drama regarding the proposed web standards behaviour in IE8, here’s a re-cap:
Microsoft announces that IE8 can render the ACID2 test perfectly in IE8. Web devs get excited.
In the name of “not breaking the web” (read: “not pissing off corporate clients that have spent many thousands of dollars [...]
The Google StreetView car was recently spotted by a friend of mine driving around here in Shepparton. It was apparently a black sedan, pole camera on the roof, Google magnet logo on the door. It’s unknown whether they’re taking photos of the Shepparton area (which is unlikely, but would be ubercool) or whether it’s just [...]
Shepparton Show Me and Show MeBay goes live!
Published October 29th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsThe Shepparton Show Me and Show MeBay websites have finally gone live. Mad Web Skills has been responsible for almost every aspect of development for these websites including web design, information architecture, user interface design, database development and php scripting.
The Shepparton Show Me website is running on Mad Web Skills’ own cmsharp content management [...]
Apparently I look a bit like Jonathan Snook.
At Web Directions, it was mentioned to me by no less than three separate people that I kinda look like the man. In fact, the first one of these people came up to me during the morning tea break, shook my hand and said with a big smile [...]
Not really a workshop per se, but the W3C SIG day where various working groups presented a look into what they were up to, and where they were headed. I’ve had bugger-all to do with W3C and it’s inner workings so I was intrigued as to what they actually did. In retrospect however, I should [...]
I was going to give the live blogging thing a go this year, but due to the lack of wifi here at the Powerhouse Museum, I decided to just take a few notes from Andy’s workshop from time to time, then collate them into something to post at the end of the day. This worked [...]
It’s that time of year again when the ol’ weblog gets it’s yearly workout. I arrived in Sydney this afternoon, and after settling into my hotel room (with LCD TV! Yay!), getting all showered up (By the way, WTF? What kind of hotel has the hot tap turn on anti-clockwise, and the cold tap turn [...]
Content and presentation separation anxiety
Published August 22nd, 2007 in Uncategorized. 6 CommentsRecently there has been a bit of discussion about the ol’ separation of content and presentation after the release (and subsequent point upgrade release) of Blueprint, a most excellent CSS framework by Olav Bjørkøy (also based on the work of others) for the quick deployment of grid layouts and baseline typography. B
Among the voices heard [...]
