In solving some of the problems needed to create my pure CSS progress bars with rounded corners, I ended up using a combination of two backgrounds: a background-color and a background-image. Unfortunately, images are rather static, inflexible things. They require … Continue reading
I love rounded corners as much as the next guy and CSS3 makes it really easy to use them on the web. Unfortunately, there are some weird quirks and bugs that can spoil the fun. This week, I wanted to … Continue reading
Tablets are not just for consuming content, but navigating the cursor in text to make changes, correct mistakes and so on is still kind of painful. Daniel Hooper was frustrated by how tedious text editing is on an iPad and … Continue reading
It has been very entertaining to follow the news around the infamous Samwer brothers – the German trio that set the standard for copying successful businesses. Like them or not, they were able to outrun a giant like Groupon and … Continue reading
I’m currently working on making Nestoria more friendly to users on mobile devices and one of the biggest challenges was easily testing on real mobile devices. This is important, because there is no such thing as mobile WebKit. Apple provides … Continue reading
Amazon finally released its long awaited Android-based tablet today: The Kindle Fire. It’s a true tablet, with a gorgeous IPS colour touch screen and enough power to run apps and play movies. This in itself is interesting enough, but what … Continue reading
Silently autoupdating software is amazingly powerful, but also incredibly difficult to pull off without either stifling innovation or estranging users. I was reading this post by Paul Irish on browser market pollution, or how IEx will be the new IE6. … Continue reading
Google has ceased to be a search company years ago. It is now an advertising agency, a “bank” a app hosting, email and intranet provider, with their own office suite. The list goes on, but what it all boils down … Continue reading
I always kind of liked the idea of guerilla gardening; reclaiming the dull gray spaces that surround us. While I presently don’t really live in a place that is devoid of green and nature, I certainly appreciate playful ways of … Continue reading