July 2003
Wide-body CSS
Posted by on Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 14 comments
The advent of table-free pure CSS layouts has been great for those browsing with non-PC environments (handhelds, etc.) as they allow cleaner more structured mark-up. However, in normal browsers, even the most beautiful flexible-width CSS layouts get wacky when the window gets too narrow.
Tip: View Selection Source with Mozilla & Firebird
Posted by on Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 7 comments
We web developers find ourselves fishing through the output of the View Source… menu looking for some little snippet of code like a needle in a haystack. The Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird browsers have a great and little-known feature that makes this job much easier. • Select an area of a web …
Private RSS Feeds: Support for security in aggregators
Posted by on Wednesday, July 9, 2003 - 65 comments
We’ve been experimenting with security options for RSS feeds for our intranet product. However, we found that there weren’t many resources or guidelines for how encryption or authentification should be handled (either in feeds or in readers/aggregators).
Nifty Word Search Game
Posted by on Monday, July 7, 2003 - 2 comments
We were recently doing some work on a site that included a childrens' section. One potential concept that may be included in the future is a simple word search game. This is really a very simple little project, but I thought it might be cool to share it with others.