Archive for June, 2006

Cause of a little sleep depriva­tion and a lack of blog­ging for the past fort­night. She is a very good puppy, act­ive, inquis­it­ive and a quick learner.

Jana asked for tutorial on lay­er­ing HTML over Flash, so here is how the cur­rent footer works, though it will hope­fully be replaced real soon.

Warn­ing

This will only dis­play cor­rectly on Mac and *nix machines 50% of the time. There is a bug in the flash plu­gin that ran­domnly assign which ele­ment will be above the other in stack­ing order, no mat­ter what you do with z-index or source order. So if you scroll up and down or ref­eresh the page, the order may change.

There are also prob­lems with Flash­bock plu­gin for Fire­fox, over­lay­ing HTML over flash cur­rently makes it impossible to play the flash file. How­ever, a solu­tion may be at hand.

One ques­tion that did not get prop­erly answered last night at the Perth Web Stand­ards Group meet­ing was “Where do you send a friend who wants to know more about web stand­ards?” The per­son who asked the ques­tion got a little rib­bing about the friend and other than the WSG mail­ing list and Port80 forum, no other resources got men­tioned by name.

I would recom­mend the Site­point for­ums …

Want to expand your RSS feed list, but don’t want to trawl the inter­net hop­ing to find rel­ev­ant feeds, one option is to upload an OPML of your cur­rent feeds to share.opml.org and see what other people with sim­ilar RSS read­ing habits are reading.

I did …

Kara O’Halloran on The Joy and Ter­ror of Imple­ment­ing Web Stand­ards and Vicki Berry presents excerpts from her ses­sions from TODCON 8 (Access­ible Web­site Essen­tials and Lesser-Known XHTML Ele­ments and Attrib­utes). The full details are here.

I was happy to find Semi-Permanent was hap­pen­ing in Perth and even hap­pier to find Joshua Davis was one of the speak­ers. So I rushed out and got a ticket, I am going.

I don’t really con­sider myself a designer, yet I am going to a design con­fer­ence. Why …