Almost a year ago, I wrote a draft of an article about Flash, and how its days were numbered. I never got round to finish it, but as I witnessed quite a few bloggers queueing up to carry Flash’ coffin to the grave recently, I thought I’d revisit it.
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Designing the SkiMaps site3
When Plane Tree Software’s new iPhone app SkiMaps was reviewed and approved by Apple in a record time of two days, I had to scramble to get a website design up and running. But it’s live now, and I’m really pleased with the result.
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The invisible Trojan horse0
Now that the dust has settled around Google’s Chrome Frame, let’s take a look at a few thoughts and observations about the present and the future.
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Some recent projects0
It has been rather quiet here lately, but I’ve been spending a lot of free time on some other projects. I just updated the portfolio, but figured I’d post them here as well.
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CSS inheritance – remember your parent0
Time for a little CSS puzzle! Today I was faced with an issue I couldn’t find a quick solution for. Fortunately a developer had a good suggestion …
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Let’s Twiist again2
The web community is thriving in Belgium, and since yesterday we can proudly say that we have our own event that can compete with some of the big foreign conferences: Twiist.be.
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To hell with Web Safe Fonts3
It’s time to leave the notion of “web safe fonts” behind us. Here is my presentation from Barcamp Antwerp last saturday, on alternatives to the current approach to fonts on the web.
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(re)designing0
Back when I relaunched this site in June last year, I wanted to get a quick, simple design so I could start blogging right away. The trouble though was that its most remarkable feature was its absence of design.
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Background fallbacks2
RGBA colors are a very cool part of the CSS3 spec, but maybe you refrained from using RGBA because you wanted to support older browsers? Well, there is a perfectly simple fallback mechanism: provide two backgrounds.
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The year of HTML 51
Let’s kick this year off with a prediction: by the end of 2009, you will be writing HTML 5. To break the ice and lead the way, I have converted this site to HTML 5. Read on for some useful resources to get you started.
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