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I previously posted about the new features to be supported in Firefox 3 from a session I attended with Robert O’Callahan from Mozilla. One of these was support for APNG or Animated PNG graphics. This provides an option for animation on a web page beyond Flash or animated GIFs. This is good news for web [...]

Darren Wood works for Finda as a front end developer. He mentions the blueprintcss CSS framework and another is YUI, the Yahoo! User Interface Library. There is a lot of discussion about if you really need a CSS framework. The advantages are that you can save a lot of time by using a standard framework [...]

I’m at the Barcamp event in Auckland. The first session I attended was by Rob Coup who is one of the contributing developers to The Dojo Toolkit. Dojo is a Javascript development toolkit along the lines of JQuery, Prototype etc. This one is open source but commercially funded by a few companies including Sun and [...]

The W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium, the organisation responsible for defining standards on the web. They have just announced plans to introduce a new set of standards that will allow a single website to be developed that works on computers and mobile devices. This would obviously require buy-in from the various mobile device [...]

So the Auckland City Council has rolled out a new identity that it was carefully keeping under wraps until after the localbody elections (Dick obviously didn’t want to give the 5 people that voted another reason not to choose him – although you’d think “I’m not John Banks” could have carried the day once again) [...]

Images on web pages is always a challenge, especially as we deal with the complexity of different screen resolutions, browser configurations and now mobile devices with much smaller screen sizes. This is potentially the answer to this issue and is amazing. Essentially the ability to resize the image, including completely changing the dimensions (not just [...]

Interesting banner ad format that I came across today for HP. Not sure Microsoft would be too happy about their ad being covered up by it if you click on it.

I was in Scotland last month and I visited a whisky distillery (you have to when you go to Scotland, it’s the law) and they had an old publication from 1936. Here is a print ad for gin circa 1936 Here is a vodka ad circa 2006 Do you think we’ve seen substantial progress in [...]

Jim Coudal, renowned designer at Coudal Partners, gave a presentation at the Future of Online Advertising (FOOA) in New York on 7th June 2007, about one of their businesses, which is called The Deck. The Deck is a network of blogs all focused on a very specific niche audience of creative, design and web professionals [...]