While visiting the W3C to validate a page I came across an old Style Guide mini site by Tim Berners-Lee from 1995 titled, Style Guide for online hypertext. The document …
The History of the San Serif typeface
A webreference.com article on the history of the San Serif typeface and the world of fonts. Written in 1998 the article comments on the interesting and somewhat demanding study of …
Understanding web typography
I came across an interesting article on Font choices, accessibility and web design while visiting the new accessibility website called, MadeForAll. The article is written by Jim Byrne and he …
A list Apart: Flash MX and accessibility
A list Apart comment in a April 2002 issue on some of the accessibility concerns of Flash MX. I revisit to look more closely at accessibility in Flash. The two …
Aaron Swartz on the future of wireless networking
Aaron Swartz comments on the possible future of wireless networking. Somewhat witty, the blog post comments on what would happen when overly saturated wireless networks become too crowded and demand …
IE 5 Mac CSS issues & solutions on OS X and OS 9
There is an interesting article in the Apple Developer Connection site which comments on some CSS issues and solutions with Internet Explorer (IE) version 5 on the Mac for OS …
Netoman – an interactive two-way multimedia tool
netomat is an interactive tool which looks at two-way personal multimedia communication. In the summer of 1999 netomat was conceived as a network-based art project created by Maciej Wisniewski. It …
View any page in a mobile screen size in Opera 7
If you are developing for mobile or PDA and need to see how a page will look like on a tiny screen… well, try the new version of Opera (7.02) …
Improving search results relevance in Google
37 Signal post an interesting comment on search results from Google, by making comparisons to results for “african coffee trade”. They have created a visual-mockup of how Google might render …
Preloading hover images using CSS rollovers
Jeffrey Zeldman post a useful article on preloading hover images using CSS rollovers www.zeldman.com/daily/0203c.shtml#csspreload
Intel TROPFEST’s 2003 Best of the Rest at Popcorntaxi
Popcorn Taxi are screening the INTEL TROPFEST’s ‘Best of the Rest’ Program 1 on Wednesday March 26th – 7:30 pm in Sydney at the Valhalla, 166 Glebe Point Rd. Glebe, …
The life of Sir David Attenborough
I watched an excellent documentary on the life of Sir David Attenborough last night on ABC. Presented by Michael Palin the TV special celebrated David Attenborough’s 50 years at the …
PBS Frontline – The Long Road to War
Here is an interesting PBS documentary series on the last 12 years of Saddam Hussein. The special two-hour FRONTLINE report, “The Long Road to War”, relates the history of America’s …
The Alchemy of Experience
Mark Hurst comments on the “Alchemy of Experience”, a look at how great creativity can sometimes come from great constraint, by transforming small amounts of raw material into rich results. …
Dying planet is consumed by its sun
ABC Science news comments on a planet orbiting close to its Sun-like star which is shrinking as its mass is violently boiled off by the pressure. The gas giant is …