November 24th, 2008 | News | No Comments
You may have noticed that the flash media uploader doesn’t work anymore. Don’t blame wordpress. The problem comes from the last Flash player update to version 10. This last version brings new security improvement that disallow interaction with flash movies from outside the movie.
This means few web apps that were using flash behind the scene, usually to extend javascript functionalities will have to rethink their interface a bit.
In our case with wordpress a quick fix could be to change the upload button by a flash button. Being itself in the movie, the flash button could trigger any flash event needed.
My fancy UTF-8 special char bookmarklet was using a flash movie to do the copy to clipboard in non IE browsers. Of course this doesn’t work anymore which means I will have to find a replacement for that…
November 20th, 2008 | News | No Comments
What a surprise this morning when opening my private mailbox (don’t tell the boss). Google strike again introducing themes pack for Gmail (see screenshot at the end). If you don’t have the Themes tab in your preferences panel yet it means the option hasn’t been activated for your box. But don’t worry it will come at some point later.
So what are Gmail themes? Basically a selection of special css file to style up your mailbox. It’s just about the look. Although apparently some theme change during the day and you will be asked to enter the City you leave in. Read the rest of this entry »
November 18th, 2008 | News | No Comments
Ever wondered where the clouds are coming from? Well my guess, not from Internet. Although Wordle is creating clouds, they are only made of words. And that’s what is interesting about the site. Read the rest of this entry »
November 17th, 2008 | Semantic | No Comments
Semantic in web development in often resumed as using the right markup for the right content. Their is of course a bit more behind it but it’s a decent start.
Today I’ll like to dig from the markup reference some tags that you won’t see very often, but could be used to make your code more semantic. Read the rest of this entry »
November 14th, 2008 | Weekly winner | No Comments
Last week was very busy and I missed the winner site of the week but I am back on track this week. And the winner is…….(long silence) Meagan Fisher blog/portfolio website (applause and crazy scream).
I’ve picked this website for the design. I am a big fan of the grungy trend. So when I saw paper texture, map background, pencil and…. an owl(!?) that was it. Read the rest of this entry »
November 13th, 2008 | Review | No Comments
Over the past few months have had many problem with my screenshots providers. The first one, websnapr stopped giving shots for free in the size I wanted and I had to move on to SnapCasa, which was free and allowed bigger size than websnapr. Read the rest of this entry »
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