Link dump #148

The Letter - not a redesign

Base Href Tag

The base href tag tells the browser that all relative links within the document start from that specified base location. Web Design Discussion on bas [...]

font-sizing fixed again

last time it was Raymond Briggs... this time its Richard Rutter. Both idea's are essentially the same with a font-size being declared in the body [...]

Flickr Related Tag Browser

Tom Hunter

Smooth internal links

Rakesh wrote about T he Usability Of Internal Links and pointed to a useful technique on display at Intrepidity Weblog where internal links (or anch [...]

Eolas and web developers

The Eolas patent infringement victory has rattled the Web since it was handed down in August. In its verdict, a jury found that Microsoft's IE brows [...]

Six unimportant things

Styling the HR

Here's a pretty useful article on styling the HR tag. [...]

Link dump #51

child selectors

I found this nice explanation of child selectors on the css-discuss forum:What does it mean when there's a ">" in the css code? For example:li.sub [...]

music

delicious music. [...]

CSS for IE only

I found this interesting snippet from a blog made on the 31st July on the DHTML site; using a hyphen before a tag declaration in your stylesheet all [...]

Nokia N9

Poetry Junk

Coder serves up poetry with newest Bagle: full story at news.com. [...]

Browser wars again?

10% of internet users on Firefox by the end of next year is a very conservative estimate... article at News.com. [...]

Microsoft Patent

Microsoft has won a patent for an instant messaging feature that notifies users when the person they are communicating with is typing a message ... [...]

the $100 computer

Novatium look like they're gonna be releasing a computer costing just $100. [...]

Hide email address with CSS?

Here's an interesting idea... use the id attribute of the p tag and assign a style to it to hide an email address: explanation at phoenity [...]

Google eyes book search

Google is in talks with several publishers to build a service that would allow Web surfers to search the full text of books online ... more [...]

Microsoft moves beyond patches

Conceding that its strategy of patching Windows holes as they emerge has not worked, Microsoft plans next week to outline a new security effort focus [...]

Shift key breaks CD copy locks

A Princeton University student has published instructions for disabling the new anticopying measures being tested on CDs by BMG--and they're as simp [...]

Social Bookmark Link Creator 2.0

Generate the tags and markup to stick in your blog posts for the following:TechnoratiDiggDel.icio.usYahooBlinkListSpurlRedditFurl [...]