CSS3 Modules … How the Most Popular Browsers See It
The CSS3 standards and specifications are taking shape as modules and are still evolving in various states. Within each module are some really great web design and layout tools. The ability to rotate text and images; alter the origin, sized and number of backgrounds; add gradients to boxes; add text effects including shadows; change the radius, color, shadow or add an image to borders; RBG, HSL and opacity color effects; enhanced user interface [UI] options; increased number of font faces; media queries; multiple column layouts; and new options and specs for aural media aka speech are some of the new tools or toys that website designers will have the ability to play with when the modules reach the Recommendation stage. Currently only two modules have reached Recommendation. Read more
Upgrade your browser!
Have you started seeing websites that seem to be full of quirks? Do you arrive at websites to be greeted with a message that tells you that you need to upgrade your browser to a better browser. Likely the message also mentions that you are using Internet Explorer 6. Do yourself a favor, and make IE6 a memory!
IE6 is a nightmare for web designers. Pages that are designed and look the same in all other A Grade browsers, will look differently on IE6, unless the website designer has used a bunch of CSS hacks to address these quirks inherent to Internet Explorer 6 and other quirks inherent in prior versions of Internet Explorer. I did have IE6 installed on one of my computers, IE7 on another and IE8 on another; along with Firefox, Safari and Chrome. However, not too long back I was using a computer with IE6 and was unable to even access a couple of sites, including my MySpace page. Unless I used a different browser I could not access those sites. If you have not experienced this yet, you probably will soon. If you have experienced it occasionally, you will likely run into the same problem more often, until your upgrade your browser. Read more
Cricket & Twitter Solution
I have a Cricket phone and I have a Twitter account. I would like to set up my phone device to be able to tweet. The solution is to use Ping.fm.
Apparently, Cricket does not support five digit codes. In fact, I read a post from about eight months ago, when a customer contacted Cricket to ask about making their phones Twitter-friendly. At that time, they did not know who the customer was talking about. Well, eight months later and they still do not have a friendly relationship.
Ping.fm is free to sign up and free to use. You can use it for updating your MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and other accounts, too.
OpenWave
Of the millions of websites on the internet, the vast majority of these sites are not mobile ready, or even close to being mobile ready. OpenWave, based in Redwood City, California announced that they are going to enable mobile users to have access to these otherwise Web 2.0 non-compliant websites with their OpenWeb application.
When a mobile user wants to access the internet OpenWeb will take a non-compliant websites and convert those sites; and on the fly they will re-format the pages so that they can be viewed on phones and pda devices. The OpenWeb gateway will split the requested internet and radio transmissions and only deliver the type of information which the phone or mobile device is capable of displaying.
Technologically, this gateway application will render 100% Web 2.0 XHTML/MP content. Not only will the content be compressed for more efficient and faster delivery of pages; users can expect to see more intuitive features that deliver added benefits that save you time. From an advertising and revenue standpoint, this development should open the door to enhanced opportunities for mobile advertising. From the standpoint of the end user, this will enable millions of users to have access to millions of websites they previously would have been unable to access.
Cricket Communications uses OpenWave; so hopefully, Cricket users will see the benefit of this new gateway in the near future.
Firefox crashes when I try to upload an image in WordPress
Firefox crashes when I try to upload an image in WordPress
I am using WordPress 2.7.1 and have been unable to upload images using the Flash uploader or image uploader. Every time I try to upload an image Firefox crashes. I am using Firefox 3.0.10. I was not sure what was happening. However, it is a pain when there are plugins that require this method to upload images that can be accessed for their respective application.
I also had been having problems that were specific to Firefox; with being able to add widgets to the right sidebar, using the new dynamic sidebars in WordPress. Read more
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