October 2007

CSS Eleven: good idea, but there are a lot more than eleven of us using CSS

Man jailed over accidental Facebook message

  • October 8, 2007 at 7:38 am
  • Categories: Digital engagement

  • This is a bit scary: a man who had been ordered not to contact his wife was jailed when he inadvertently sent her a message on Facebook. He claims the sign-up process confused him—in the same way that it confused me—by sending automatic friend requests to people in his existing contacts lists. “I certainly hadn’t [...]

Musical Instruments Museum hits the right note

  • October 1, 2007 at 5:51 pm
  • Categories: Cool stuff

  • (Sorry about the poor pun.) Just a note to enthuse about the Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels, which I recently visited with my friend over at DevCreek. It is, to my mind, a good example of technology used well, rather than for the sake of it.

Join the cause for standards in html email

  • October 1, 2007 at 5:17 pm
  • Categories: Standards,Troubleshooting,Web design

  • I’ve suffered plenty of headaches trying to create standards-compliant emails, and have given up in favour of bloated, cumbersome, outdated html (ie the stuff of nightmares where the design of each paragraph is dependent on its own font tags).