Dec 232009
 

I came across a situation recently where the skype extension for firefox was messing up the layout of a page. Basically the page looked fine in all major browsers, however when you opened it up in firefox with the skype extension for firefox enabled it messed with the formatting of the page. If you have the same problem you can fix it simply by adding the following meta tag to your page:

<meta name=”SKYPE_TOOLBAR” content=”SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE” />

this effectively just blocks the skype extension from working. Once you have done this only phone numbers formatted with tags as follows will be recognised by the skype exxtension:

Dec 152009
 

If you want to create a some nice snazzy banners, image galleries, etc, in flash, here is a nice application done in Flash – Cu3er.

It is free, and it works via an xml file, which you edit. It is easily customisable and will display images/slides in a 3D structure. You can specify things like transitions, buttons, symbols, colours, etc.

It is well worth a look at.

Have fun :-)

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Dec 152009
 

I have just found a new framework called HYPE. It looks to be a lovely actionscript 3 framework for coders and con-coders alike to easily create effects, and i plan to have lots of fun with it :-)

You will need some basic as3 knowledge, but you can quickly get results with a minimal amount of coding, and there are some lovely examples on the HYPE website.

Have a look at it and let me know what you think

hype

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Dec 092009
 

Again, a new standard, HTML5, being worked on, but not finalised yet. And again, some browsers are starting to use some of the new HTML5 commands.

I have not tried them yet (but I plan to), but here is a short list of browsers/links to help you get started…

Browsers that have started implementing HTMl5

Chrome

Firefox 3.5

Opera

Safari

Useful HTML5 links

w3.org HTML5 spec

safari features

alistapart.com HTML5 article

websites using html5

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Dec 092009
 

In case you were wondering, you can create rounded corners in web pages now, without graphics.

However it takes CSS3 to do it, and although the standard has not been finalised yet, it doesn’t mean that the browsers are not taking advantage of any new techniques that they like.

Such as rounded corners.

At the moment I have only tested Safari andFirefox with this code – I do not know if it is possible in Chrome, IE, etc – but here is the css code…

Firefox (mozilla)

-moz-border-radius: 5 px [for all corners, circle]