Chris Wilson, Group Program Manager of the Internet Explorer Platform team at Microsoft, fires both barrels at those that would say that IE doesn’t care about standards and that the standards community has started to bow to Microsoft. technorati tags: ie, msie, microsoft, standards, vitamin
A post on 37signals reminds web application creators to not forget to not only charge what a service is worth, but to offer a premium service for more money. It is amazing, according to the article, the number of people that are generally willing to fork out the dough for a service that is worth it. technorati tags: 37signals
Vitamin Features » Will the Standards Battle Ever be Won? technorati tags: ie, standards, vitamin
I am tired of hearing about Rocketboom. Rocketboom is a terrible video blog. It's host, Amanda, is annoying. It is not well produced. It says nothing about nothing. It's a waste of bandwidth -- and yet everyone seems to want to hold it up as the best example of video blogging. WHY?! Personally, as a person that wants to see more people catch on to video blogs, it's an embarrasment. But it seems like every time that I open NetNewsWire, turn on my TiVo or even listen to the radio (Amanda was on NPR yesterday), Rocketboom is there.
Only one more game-related post this morning -- promise. I just discovered what a sucker I am. I was so with the previously referenced article that the game play is what matters and that these console makers, while exploring the current limits of gaming graphics, are not creating great games. Down with beautifully rendered 3D worlds! Up with fun! ...Until I saw the trailer that Bungie showed at E3 for Halo 3.
WeBreakStuff » What we can learn from gaming consoles WeBreakStuff takes a look at the way that the console makers demonstrated their wares, praising Nintendo for focusing on the game instead of improved graphics. The article takes lessons from this and briefly applies them to site building. technorati tags: Wii, Nintendo
Kutaragi on PlayStation3: it’s too cheap At $600, Sony Computer Entertainment cheif Ken Kutaragi has said that the PlayStation 3 is too cheap. Perhaps, in the effort to put together a console that would be technically superior to anything else available, they have priced themselves out of the game. It is only $100 more than an XBox 360, but by time the PS3 comes out in November, Microsoft may drop the price of the 360 as console makers do after a box has been out for a year.
The Dreamweaver Developer Center is a resourcet that I tell people about a lot, but always forget to continue checking myself. This morning I found there some great articles and tutorials on form styling with CSS, formating XML with XSL, and using a framework called SPRY to add interactive AJAX elements to web pages. I wish that there was an obvious news feed so that I could subscribe to this page…
Eric Meyer is a giant in the CSS world and this is a great interview with him about how he got into CSS and the business of web development. technorati tags: css, eric, meyer
Firefox 1.5 CCK (Client Customization Kit) technorati tags: firefox
O’Reilly Radar > Come Out and Play: As a former camp staffer, this sounds like a blast!technorati tags: games, camp
As long as I’ve been posting Flex info Here’s information about installing the Flex SDKs on a mac.
This is a couple of days old but the major soda makers have agreed to replace the fully-loaded pop that they sell in schools nation-wide with water, juice and sport drinks. technorati tags: soda
Adobe has released an update for Dreamweaver 8. The 8.0.2 updater is available for macintosh and windows and improves code generated by Dreamweaver for server behaviors and for active content such as Flash.technorati tags: adobe, dreamweaver
Beta 3 of Adobe’s Flex version 2 is available on the Adobe Labs site. Flex is a development environment that allows rich internet applications to be built via XML or Adobe’s FlexBuilder application to be delivered via Flash. Steep learning curve, but incredible results. technorati tags: flex
You have got to see Norelco’s new web site advertising their new BodyGroom shaver. It’s hilarious (and made with Adobe Flash!).
I can't wait for the column specification in CSS3 to become a standard in browsers. In the meantime, Firefox 1.5+ (and of course Flock), support parts of the column spec through their own stylesheet selectors. Here's an example of it in use Here's information about using it in Firefox
Pete Freitag is in the middle of a series of posts he calls “How to build a form that isn’t annoying”. There isn’t a lot of useful information here, but good things to think about. Steve Krug said “Don’t Make Me Think." Pete here, seems to be saying, “Don’t make me work.” There are a lot of things that we do with forms (pull down menus for example) that could be much easier for a person to fill out if it were presented in a different way.
MacDevCenter.com evaluates a few FTP clients for Macintosh.
If you have words, phrases or code that you find yourself typing over and over, you should take a look at Textpander. I downloaded it this morning and I think that it’s going to be very useful. You can feed it long amounts of text (great for chunks of HTML code) and assign abbreviations to them. For example, I assigned the basic code of a HTML page to “<html” and the opening and closing of a P tag to “<p”.