Comments on: 24ways not to impress people

By: Hey Raena

Hey Raena — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:34:39 +0000

I'm not feeling the Christmas love at 24ways.org... I get that the “Woo, let’s all pile on 24ways.org” thing is well over a week old, but it’s only just now that I’ve sat down and thought about what it is precisely that gets up my nose about the......

By: Nick Cowie » Opacity vs RGBA at web mixed grill

Nick Cowie » Opacity vs RGBA at web mixed grill — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:54 +0000

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By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:54:43 +0000

Ben, I agree, a lead post explaining build logic, technique and status would of been good as well as clear feedback point. I would of like to point out how I would of done it. Give the colours (background and text) a RGB value then a RGBA value, because browsers that don’t understand RGBA should ignore them completely (and IE6 behaves correctly). But I will not spam an article not about it.

You are not the only Opera user to visit this blog. Opera counts for 3% of all visitors. And as previously stated I am a huge fan of Opera Mobile 9.5. So any crazy stuff, like a new design (coming sometime I promise) will work in Opera.

By: Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:27:49 +0000

PS. Ben you still qualify as cool kid using a cool browser, even if it is Opera.

LOL :) Yeah yeah I’m the one who uses Opera.

The whole thing was a bit strange — I do think they could have saved themselves some grief by leading with a post explaining their build rationale/status (would also have given a clear feedback point, rather than spamming the first article).

By: Myles Eftos

Myles Eftos — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:09:16 +0000

Actually that layout bug in the comments of mixed grill is a typo *blushes* fixing it now.

Although I am embarrassed to say I didn’t test it in Opera, but there really isn’t anything crazy in the layout, so it should just “work” (and it does :P)

Mind you, it doesn’t look particularly good in IE6 though :)

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:17:47 +0000

John, thumbing their noses at IE is one thing, sticking their fingers up your nose if you use IE is another.

I do use Opera on a semi regular basis, Opera Mobile my browser of choice for my phone.

PS it looks like Matt fixed any problems with Opera and comments over at Web Mixed Grill

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:42:12 +0000

You can kinda understand wanting to thumb their noses at IE, but pretty poor form to ignore Opera too (yes, I’m another one of those who uses it on a regular basis — don’t know if you have anything to do with The Web Mixed Grill but the comments look a bit out of whack in Opera too).