As the name implies, a Cascading Style Sheet, or CSS, is a document that
describes the visual style of your content. Web designers have been
leveraging Cascading Styles Sheets as a tool to control content placement and
text presentation in web pages for over ten years.
With the advent of Web 2.0 applications, it is even more important to add
control to your designs. The Webkit open source project, used in Apple’s
Safari and Google’s Chrome, and Mozilla’s FireFox, recognize that CSS
must be flexible enough to meet your design needs. To this end, there is now
included in the latest versions advanced CSS styles. One of these new
features is the ability to add rounded corners to objects.
Adding rounded corners is not a new technique for the web. The effect,
however, is crea... (more)
At the moment I am working on what I think is a very cool project: a book on
HTML 5.
There is so much news about HTML 5 that I thought I would use this blog to
kind of pull together some of the emerging features. If you are new to HTML
5, then let me give you the nickel tour.
HTML 4 and XHTML were the last official versions of the HTML language (you
know, that code you view when you righ... (more)
There is no secret that I love my iPhone. I really do - I written several
articles about how cool it is. So why am I thinking of getting rid of it. The
answer: AT&T.
Bit-O history here. I was one of the first few idiots who purchased iPhone
1.0 the same week it came out. Yes, I shelled out $600. I thought it was a
good deal as I was writing about the phone and could (in my head, not so muc... (more)
Talk to iPhone developers and they will tell you that game development for
the iPhone is not hard. OK, that’s great for them, but what about us mere
mortals that quake at the thought of having to write code. For us there is
now alternative: GameSalad.com
GameSalad is two products. The first product is a piece of software you
download to your desktop that allows you to build your games. Th... (more)
It used to be so easy to slam Microsoft. There are the 800lb gorilla with all
the money that have done some shady business deals - but that is very much in
the past. Today Microsoft keeps doing things that make it hard not to like
them. They are going Open Source and being transparent and even making
mistakes (Vista, anyone?) and the 800lb almost appears humble.
Or maybe I need to stop dr... (more)