Daily Bytes

First IE URL spoof scam

Via Boing Boing comes the first scam (that I know of) using the recently discovered IE URL spoof vulnerability.

minmax.js

minmax.js:I know this isn’t the kind of things we should solve with scripting, but given the lack of support a certain browser has for the min-width and max-width CSS properties, this might be a good solution for those wanting to use liquid layouts.

Finally

Finally joined the 2.6 bandwagon. Everything seems to be working fine and faster than ever. Had some troubles with wireless networking but easily solved.

Yamaha Paper Craft

Yamaha Paper Craft: Not exactly Origami but still very cool.

2.6

Linux Kernel 2.6 finally released! Check out The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6 by Joseph Pranevich.

KernelTrap has a nice HowTo.

Elastic Bytes

Following PTG’s idea I decided to use the same technic he used in the Elastic Lawn design at this same blog. From now on my design should cope better with font changes. Ctrl++, Ctrl+- ahoy!

CSS crib sheet

CSS crib sheet: There’s lot of CSS talking around the web but it’s not always easy for a newcomer to find out about all the CSS tricks. Dave Shea brings us the CSS crib sheet with tips, tricks, advices and lots more.

Position Is Everything

Position Is Everything: Browser CSS layout bugs. Examples and solutions.

Elastic Lawn

css Zen Garden: Elastic Lawn: From HTMLDog’s PTG comes this nice CSS Zen Garden design.

Using EM instead of pixels or percentages to define the layout makes the design grow/decrease has you change the font size.

I also like the transparency effect a lot.

This ‘elastic’ approach is one that I have used for some time. The argument that text-sizes should be relative (ie. ems rather than pixels) for increased accessibility can be said to extend to the dimensions of the area in which the text is contained. It does kind of make sense to me that there are benefits to layouts that grow proportionally with the text - I mean, if a visually impaired user finds it easier to view larger text, won’t they also find that text more manageable if the space between content blocks is also larger? It also avoids increased text sizes pushing out and possibly breaking an intended design (try enlarging the text in some of the other Zen Garden designs for example). The elastic issue is one I will go into in more detail at a later date.

Remail: IBM Reinventing email

Remail Website: Not really reinventing email but reinventing email clients. Still lots of nice stuff. Thread visualization is a very nice idea.