This sounds too easy. Add a line like this to your
headelement:
<link rel="next" href="page2.html">or
<link rel="prefetch" href="big.jpg">… and the browser fetches the content in the background as soon as the user’s computer is idle. If it sounds too easy, it’s probably because Firefox is currently the only browser to support this feature. But this has the potential to be a really useful feature.
So why use a 9-year-old browser?
When Internet Explorer 6 was launched in 2001, it offered cutting–edge security – for the time. Since then, the Internet has evolved and the security features of Internet Explorer 6 have become outdated. Microsoft
It’s not just security. It’s failure to convey the design and interactivity of modern web applications and sites.
Sweet view of Arlington right out of DCA
Solutions? What’s everything else, a problem?
There’s something to be said for content clarity.
From the Bed Bath & Beyond website.
When attaching a gradient (-moz-linear-gradient, -webkit-gradient) on the <body> element, the gradient is rendered to the current client viewport by default.
So if you’ve got content longer than the client window (which certainly happens to most websites), the gradient will repeat. Be sure to set the background attachment to fixed in your css:
body { background-attachment:fixed; }
Just a quick tip!
Somethings shouldn’t be liked.
Can’t blame the Hook, they don’t get to choose what the Facebook widget says. Although they do get to choose whether to include it or not.
Edit The Facebook like button can be displayed using “Recommend” instead of “Like”. That might be a better idea for a news publication.
Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx (we were hoping for Lusty Lemur, but hey), will be out of beta and ready for prime time soon. A lot of the early chatter was about the interface updates, including logo and color scheme changes, and Ubuntu’s decision to move window controls (e.g. close, minimize) from the top right to the top left.
Basically, they’ve transitioned the controls from Windows-style to Mac OS-style.
That is certainly new, and will take some getting used to. An alpha-testing friend of mine said it took “a few hours” over one or two days to start using the buttons without thinking too much about it, but he still occasionally catches himself mousing toward the wrong side of a window. Time will tell whether this was a smart long-term move for Ubuntu. [Lifehacker]
The quote above surprised me, because I’m so unused to seeing computer savvy people actually use those controls instead of the keyboard shortcuts. Basically, who cares where those buttons go?
It’s pretty clear that Canonical is trying to sell Ubuntu, and Linux generally, as a design and user friendly operating system. Mimicking Mac rather than Windows is a pretty consumer-smart way of doing that.
From the Wellfire Interactive Blog
Wellfire’s shared psychic home.
“Home on the Range” (via Reid Kasprowicz)
Not safe for work, even if you work from home.
Especially if you work from home.
