The lack of forward movement in front-end web development by government agencies may be our own fault, says Chris Heilmann. And I agree. Completely. I’ve been increasingly biting in my reactions to many admittedly fun but practically useless “demos”, “experiments” and other assorted HTML5 and CSS3 nonsense like CSS3 icons. I always get flack for […]
Cool tool: Opera Notes
Something I didn’t pay much attention to until a few months ago is the Notes functionality built into Opera (desktop). I used to use Notational Velocity or SlipBox, which are both excellent. Since I spend about 80% of my computer time in Vim and Opera, and since Opera is my primary browser (and e-mail client), […]
What we can learn from the Defiant Dog
Ian Broyles‘ amusing one-page site Defiantdog.com features a photo of a dog, and a button containing the word “sit”. This is fabulously funny, considering that nothing (visible) happens when one clicks the button. I didn’t think much about it until Vasilis van Gemert posted about it and Ian published some stats; at that point in […]