Seems like everyone is dropping support for IE6 these days. Apple with MobileMe, 37Signals with Basecamp; even Google with Gmail. What gives? Well, it’s 7 years old for starters. In technology years, that’s like 247 years old! It’s much less secure than the other major browsers. It’s javascript support is wonky at best. And it’s CSS (layout) support? The stuff of horrible, kill-you-in-your-sleep legend.
We’re happy to report that Web Designer Wall has listed our site in the Current Web Design Trends for 2009! Looks like we’re under the “multi-column layout” section. We’re honored to be among the company of the others chosen; every single one is just amazing. If you haven’t already, go check out Nick La’s amazing resource site for web designers.
I love sIFR, but man, their documentation is really difficult to figure out. There’s multiple synatxes you can use and all kinds of hidden variables they just expect you to know. I’m just saying for us who don’t live and breath Javascript, it could be a little easier right?
So I’ve been working on a site where I want to use the drop shadow as an effect to make the text look inset. Just a 1px white highlight on the bottom right. Problem is, the drop shadow filter in Flash defaults to a nice, smooth fade. Well, that’s not usually a problem, but it’s not what I wanted. For some reason I spent hours looking for this and finally ran across the syntax in case anyone else was wondering.
Here’s how. Just take the regular syntax in your sifr-config.js file:
Keep ReadingJust a quick thought. I’m in the middle of a rather nasty family emergency where one person has been mind-bogglingly selfish. Like he is the only person in the world selfish. It’s really bad.
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Ever wanted to find friends based on the books they love? Then Bookmesh is the place for you. We’re incredibly excited to announce that it’s finally ready for some beta testers, and you’re invited.
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