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Tag Archives: CSS
Daily Links for August 30, 2009
Open Source New Linux-free PS3 part of cost-cutting drive While a fair chunk of the gaming world is rejoicing at the news of a new slim PlayStation 3 and its lower price, the hardcore Linux-loving PS3 fans out there are … Continue reading
Saturday morning housekeeping: my basement and CSS
I slept in a bit this morning since it was an exceptionally long work week. Much to the frustration of others in my family, I sometimes wake up on Saturdays with an annoying urge to get more efficient and to … Continue reading
Blog remodeling
Effective January 1, 2010, this site does not use Drupal and instead uses only WordPress. This last week I experimented with a couple of different ways of reorganizing this blog and making it easier for me to extend the website … Continue reading
Building in Second Life, By Example
Over the holidays I started a little project to take some of the building topics that I discussed in my 25 entry blog series on Second Life last year and turn them into an online book. This will allow me … Continue reading
How my website was built and how I might do it differently today
Effective January 1, 2010, this site does not use Drupal and instead uses only WordPress. It’s Saturday morning and I thought I would take a bit of time out to discuss how this website is built. It might be instructive … Continue reading
Posted in Blog and Website, Open Source, Programming, Standards
Tagged CSS, Java, Mint, PHP, Podcast, Website, WordPress
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links for 2006-12-01
Open-source group wants educational patent reversed | CNET News.com “A legal center is trying to overturn a patent it says threatens three open-source educational projects, a sign of the tension between patent holders and the collaborative programming community.” (tags: opensource … Continue reading
Formatting links in the blog – your opinion?
I’ve just tweaked some of the formatting to make the links a bit more obvious in the text, namely by adding dotted underlines. I still differentiate them by color, but I myself was having trouble seeing the links. The underlining … Continue reading
links for 2006-08-18
CSS and Standards IE7 and standards compliance – Microsoft’s Chris Wilson charts progress | Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com “Yesterday I interviewed Microsoft’s Chris Wilson, the Group Program Manager for IE, to address the issue of whether Microsoft’s latest web … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Patents, Standards
Tagged conference, CSS, Java, Microsoft, XML
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Vista, Office, fonts, portability, and a different form of lock-in?
I love fonts. In the 1990s I went out to Redmond for an open Microsoft meeting to talk about font technology. It was technical, geeky, and I got a cool T-shirt (one of several that Microsoft has given me during … Continue reading
How open will you be in 5 years? More than now, I hope.
I just finished my second full day on this trip and I’m pretty tired. I’ve talked to a lot of people on the general themes of open standards, open source, OpenDocument Format, and innovation. One question I like to ask … Continue reading
Improved display
Prompted by a bug report elsewhere on the web site, I did some work on the CSS design of the site to fix things so they look better under the Internet Explorer browser. Or, put another way, Firefox and Opera … Continue reading
More on presentation software – look at Opera Show
Late last night I put up an entry asking where was the killer open source presentation software. Sam Hiser responded with a comment as did a couple of other people and Sam has a longer piece on his blog. Sam … Continue reading
Some CSS work
As part of getting reading to move the blogs over to WordPress, I did some clean up of the CSS that controls the formatting of the site. I restructured the file to more cleanly separate the colors, the fonts, and … Continue reading
Site settling down
I did some more fiddling with the website tonight, fixing some CSS and adjusting some of the display. I was able to install both Apache and PHP on my local computer, which made it much easier to test the configuration … Continue reading
Good CSS reference
There are several good online guides for creating Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for websites. The one I prefer is by the Web Design Group. To get the official spec from the W3C, go directly to the Cascading Style Sheets, level … Continue reading
