Archive - October, 2003

End of the Eolas Suit?

October 31 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Could this be the end of the Eolas suit brought against Microsoft for their so called patent infringements?
Acting on the advice of the W3C HTML Patent Advisory Group, W3C has presented the United States Patent and Trademark Office with prior art establishing that US Patent No. 5,838,906 (the ‘906 patent) is invalid. W3C Director Tim [...]

Lockergnome Make-Over

October 31 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

I don’t know when this happened, but Lockergnome has had a CSS make-over… as well as looking amazing it also validates as XTHML strict.
Go let them know that it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy.

Sliding Doors of CSS, Part II

October 30 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Sliding Doors of CSS, Part II
In Sliding Doors of CSS Part I, Douglas Bowman introduced a new technique for creating visually stunning interface elements with simple, text-based, semantic markup. In Part II, he pushes the technique even further with rollovers, a fix for IE/Win’s CSS bugs, and lots more.

FeedDemon RC2

October 27 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Nick has released RC2 of his RSS Reader, FeedDemon.
This release sees the addition of a built in link to extra FeedDemon styles, and a way in which to manage them.
Please read the release notes before downloading FeedDemon.

How do I start my own blog?

October 26 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Yahoo answers a question I get asked quite often… “How do I start my own blog?”.

Posting to MovableType from FeedDemon

October 26 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Posting to MovableType from FeedDemon.
Jakub Kazecki posted a handy tip in the Bradsoft newsgroups which enables posting to MovableType directly from FeedDemon.
First, select Tools > Blog this News Item > Configure Blog Publishing Tools, then click the "Add" button and enter this as the command line:
http://www.myblog.com/cgi-bin/mt.cgi?
is_bm=1&bm_show=&__mode=view&_type=entry&
title=$ITEM_TITLE$&link_title=$ITEM_TITLE$
&link_href=$ITEM_LINK$&text=$ITEM_DESCRIPTION$
Where ‘www.myblog.com/cgi-bin’ is the URL of your MT installation.
After doing [...]

XHTML Transitional, Strict – What’s the Difference?

October 24 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Shirley outlines some interesting links that help clarify the differences between Transitional & Strict XHTML.

SimpleQuiz Part IX – Smart Linking

October 24 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Dan poses another question in his SimpleQuiz, this time he’s raises the question of linking correctly.

A List Apart 3.0

October 22 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

The one and only A List Apart has opened it’s doors again after a short respite and now sports a new design
They kick off the show with three articles from Joe Clark, Douglas Bowman and Dan Bejamin.
The changes to both the front-end and back-end redesign will also be featured in an upcoming article; So keep [...]

CSS Float Tutorial

October 20 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Floatutorial takes you through the basics of floating elements such as images, drop caps, next and back buttons, image galleries, inline lists and multi-column layouts.