28th
August
2001
Ug. “The Challenge: Replicate WebRef’s front page using CSS. The Solution: CSS and lots of iterations. Rogelio Lizaolo improves on Kwon Ekstrom’s CSS version of WebRef’s tabled home page. Months in the making, the final design successfully duplicates WebRef’s layout without the use of tables. Numerous bugs were discovered in Netscape and Explorer in how they handle CSS, and we found some elegant workarounds to these and other problems. What follows is a step by step CSS layout tutorial that shows how we got to the final design.”
posted in CSS | Permalink |
28th
August
2001
“If everyone would subscribe to such a system and create good metadata for the purposes of describing their goods, services and information, it would be a trivial matter to search the Internet for highly qualified, context-sensitive results: a fan could find all the downloadable music in a given genre, a manufacturer could efficiently discover suppliers, travelers could easily choose a hotel room for an upcoming trip. A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be a utopia. It’s also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities.”
posted in Information architecture | Permalink |
28th
August
2001
Attention St. Louisans! The Shins bring their extremely lovable brand of misfit pop to the Rocket Bar tonight. Recommended.
posted in Music | Permalink |
28th
August
2001
“Objects, people, attributes and just about every aspect of human activity have often been grouped together to aid us in our understanding. From the earliest times numbers, seemingly only used for counting, have been used for the foundation of elaborate symbolisation. They can not only express quantity but ideas, notions and power. Each number possesses its own individuality and has its own particular properties. Within all of the themes that infiltrate our lives number is a central force.” Neat!
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