Archives for the ‘Linux/Open Source’ Category

browser wars…again

So the wars have begun again. Mozilla released its third beta of firefox3.1. With the anticipation of IE8, Safari 4, Chrome, & Opera 10, Mozilla is deep in the middle battle.
It seems that one of the biggest battle grounds of this war is over speed. I tried the beta 2 of FF and didn’t really [...]

Internet Explorer on Ubuntu?

Until recently I had been doing all my web design editing on my ubuntu laptop at home. I didn’t really think about the likely story that Internet Explorer would have issues with rendering the stuff I was doing.
I wish I would of grabbed a screen shot of the madness that IE created with FUMCclass.com. The [...]

chick tracts

This morning at church someone made reference to “chick tracts”, then on TheResurgence their was also a reference to a chick tract.
After following a link from TheResurgence to the ‘Holy Joe‘ tract at Chick.com, I browsed around the site. The testimonials were pretty funny, but not a as funny as “Papa” the tract to ‘expose’ [...]

editing user css file

A post over at Ubuntu Productivity got me excited about editing the user-content.css file for firefox so I can save screen space by removing/editing unneeded things. The post was specifically about google docs and a one line of css to save 25px. Athough you can edit css for any site.
I was able to save about [...]

GNOME documentation on International Concerns

I found these helpful hints on “GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.2″1:
Sensitivity to cultural and political issues is also an important consideration. Designing icons and sounds, and even choosing colors requires some understanding of the connotations they might have to a user from a different part of the world.
Examples of elements it is best to avoid [...]