Archive for July, 2004

Laugh of the Day?

Monday, July 26th, 2004

I read this in the comments to a reply to the PHP vs ASP.NET crap Oracle posted. Mike Kozlowski wrote:
That Oracle article was one of the lamest, most preposterous pieces of cheerleading I’ve seen since Dave Massy said that he was afraid to use non-IE browsers for security reasons.

Yahoo buys Oddpost

Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

Oddpost is most likely the best web application I’ve seen and it is a proof that DHTML can be used to create rich web applications. The second best web application I’ve seen is Halfbrain. This should come as no shock that Oddpost and Halfbrain comes from the same genius hive mind.
I got the news that [...]

CSS Challenge

Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

A scenario that I often stumble upon is the following case:
<a><b/></a>
<a><c/></a>
…and depending on whether <a> contains a <b> or a <c> I would like to style it differently. Can this be achieved using CSS3 selectors? If so how?
If I had a G-Mail account and had some free G-Mail accounts I would give them away to [...]

Safari Dashboard Mess

Monday, July 12th, 2004

There has been a lot of ranting and raving about Safari 2.0 and its extensions to HTML while I’ve been away. Dave Hyatt (one of the lead developers of Safari and also one of the driving forces behind Mozilla) has been blogging about this for the last week or so.
I wanted to add my thoughts [...]