Archive for June, 2008
Transparent PNG support for IE 6, 5.5
Tired of compromising your beautiful designs or being forced to find work-arounds that don’t work when using transparent PNGs? There is a way… By invoking the CSS behavior found in this script you can add decent PNG support to IE5.5+ on Windows with no changes to your website HTML source code. And since this method uses CSS “behaviors,” a custom Microsoft extension to CSS, it will not affect any other browsers like Mozilla and Opera which already implement good PNG support.
Webmonkey Returns
A roommate in college maintained a popular Radiohead fan site, “Lift.” It boasted more traffic than most sites hosted at the University of Kentucky, our school, back in 1997. I was inspired and wanted to display stuff on a computer screen too! But how? Jon showed me around Netscape Composer and Webmonkey answered the other questions: How does a web form work? Should I use HTML frames? How do I create an animated gif? What’s the difference between Java and JavaScript. Most importantly, How do I make a career out of making web sites?!
Webmonkey was an essential resource at the time and offered newbies and seasoned veterans tips, tricks, and reference tools. Webmonkey authors were also outspoken, opinionated, and helped shape the emerging digital and web culture. Eventually the site lost relevance and disappeared… until April 2008. Webmonkey 2.0 has launched.
Firefox 3 to ship Tuesday, June 17
Firefox 3 will be released on Tuesday, June 17, 2008, and you’re invited to the party! From the Mozilla Developer News blog: ‘After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready. It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th. Put on your party hats and get ready to download Firefox 3 — the best web browser, period.’”
