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Last Monday Jan and I went to a workshop by Dan Cederholm & Ethan Marcotte in London @ Wallacespace.
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Written on November 27th, 2009 at 15:17 in Blog, Technology
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XHTML/CSS for mobile devices

Design downgrading

I use the awesome program TopStyle to write CSS. This has the option (in preferences) to select to write Mobile CSS, so you have the limited available CSS properties you can choose from, and they are very, very limited.
In Mobile CSS:
line-height doesn’t work,
display only block or inline,
position is not known, etc. … Read more ›

Written on November 4th, 2009 at 11:19 in Blog, Technology
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Some of the websites that we make here at Nascom are Wordpress driven, others are Drupal driven. When it comes down to theming, I am doing both, with a slight preference for Wordpress because it’s easier.

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Written on April 1st, 2009 at 12:07 in Blog, Technology
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Here at Nascom we still support web users in using Internet Explorer 6, mostly because it still has a huge market share of 18.5% (going downwards). That’s a lot more than Google Chrome 3.9%, Safari 3.0% and Opera 2.3% (all three of them rising).
So for us xHTML dudes it sometimes is a challenge to meet up with this particular buggy browser. That’s why we’re always scanning the great World Wide Web for solutions to make our job as easy as possible.
Let’s share some thoughts on the designs. Nowadays they’ve become more and more complicated, flashier, with rounded corners and transparent layers. And transparency is one of the things Internet Explorer just can’t handle (correctly) when it comes to *.png’s.
To make it work for IE6, you have to rely on the AlphaImageLoader filter, either in your CSS or in JavaScript, but the downside of that is: Read more ›

Written on February 6th, 2009 at 12:22 in Blog, Technology
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