Stretch with ease: you and your CSS floats container
One of the major difficulties in CSS-based web layouts is manipulating the height of elements. It was actually easier using the old tables method. There are two main difficulties: IE does not support min-height; and the container of floated elements is not supposed to vertically stretch to encompass those floated elements it contains.
A quick easy solution I find myself doing often is creating a little stretcher div after the floated elements. In the HTML you add this:
<div class="holder-stretcher"> </div>
While in the CSS you define the holder-stretcher class:
.holder-stretcher { clear: both; line-height: 0px; }
A bit ugly in your source code but saves a lot of hair.
Customers don’t know what they want
Joel on Software expounds on customers: Customers Don’t Know What They Want. Stop Expecting Customers to Know What They Want..
The state of the blogosphere is strong
In State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 2: Beyond Search, author David Sifry writes, “I want to go a level or two deeper than just thinking about the blogosphere as an A-List and The Long Tail—for that’s far too simplistic, and leaves out some of the most interesting blogs and bloggers out there. This realm of publishing, which I call “The Magic Middle” of the attention curve, highlights some of the most interesting and influential bloggers and publishers that are often writing about topics that are topical or niche.
I videogiochi come mass-media: le frontiere della comunicazione
Il videogame e’ sempre stato visto come un prodotto o al piu’ come un media ibrido. Ma il videogame e’ un media ecclettico per definizione: non si focalizza su un media specifico per definizione essendo da sempre caratterizzato da una integrazione forte ed efficace di piu’ media. E con l’avvento di internet anche i videogame si sono ‘espansi’ acquisendo una dimensione globale e istantanea.
Vector graphics in Javascript
Walter Zorn’s JavaScript VectorGraphics library provides graphics capabilities for JavaScript: functions to draw circles, ellipses (ovals), oblique lines, polylines and polygons (for instance triangles, rectangles) dynamically into a webpage.
Control Flash with Javascript using Aflax
With Food Force we integrated Flash with a dynamically content-managed HTML site website, but AFLAX is “a method through which developers may use JavaScript and Flash together to create AJAX-type applications” (doesn’t work in Opera and requires Flash 8).
entertainment, film, Italy, Rome
Rome, perfect film set
Are the Hollywood giants smothering Italian film with theirs super mega productions filled to the brim with incredible special effects? Or can Italy regain some its glorious film history and give the Hollywood movie giants a run for their money?
The figures clearly put Italy in second place – in 2004, over 150 first-run Hollywood films were shown in Italian cinemas, in comparison with only just over 100 home-produced films and co-productions. Lots of work for those dubbing artists since showing films in their original language is not the done thing over here – unfortunately.
Who could deny that Rome is a perfect film set – in fact you often see people filming in some beautiful little side street but generally it’s for feature films commissioned by TV. In fact these days it’s television that keeps the big Roman film studios such as Cinecitta in business. Who knows, maybe this year’s Venice Film Festival will bring some pleasant surprises.
iPod inside your Symbian phone
Those Symbian fanboys (and we are newcomers to this not-so-small group) posted how to put an iPod inside your smartphone (almost).
Why not more websites made for mobile?
Very few major web sites have a mobile version suitable for PDAs or smartphones. Among them are:
- Instapundit
The technical knowledge is there, and designing according to webstandards, using CSS to separate presentation from content, allows for avariety of different presentations. And the mobile internet is growingvery quickly. We wonder, then, why it’s not more common, even necessary,to have mobile-optimized versions of sites.
Update: There’s now a WAP version of USA Today.
