technical ramblings
When it comes to web design trends, square web design is back.
What I, at least partially, put down to the move away from table layouts for design (and thank whomever you like that we have moved away from that horror) we saw rounded corners on everything web related. But there is no doubt in my mind that square web design, or Flat Design, is making a strong return.
Considering myself something of a web and WordPress developer, of course I looked into using HTML5 in all its much vaunted and promised glory of cutting edge yet backward compatible technology, and see what it was all about.
I was quickly confused, and somewhat put-off.
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Apple vs Samsung. The battle of patent infringement against Korean tech giant Samsung has been emphatically won by Apple in a landmark decision in a US Federal Court, and yet somehow I feel the war has only just begun.
Legislation passed yesterday (18th June, 2012) to allow gamers in Australia to purchase games that would otherwise be classified R18+.
Previously games that would attract this classification would either have to modify the content to satisfy a less severe classification (MA15+) or be banned from sale.
Read more Gamers in Australia can Start Purchasing R18 Games
A rookie mistake no doubt, but whilst troubleshooting another issue a client had found on one of my sites when viewed on Internet Explorer 8, I noticed something else odd. Some images weren’t displaying.
Nothing too sinister about these images, they are JPEGs (.jpg), they are small, other images in the same format worked fine.
Having a look around the web I saw other people having a similar issue, and a lot of the help provided suggested checking IE settings (making sure images were set to display) and things along those lines. But I knew this wasn’t my problem, considering other images worked perfectly fine.
It wasn’t until this morning when I decided to compare two images (one working, one not) that I finally discovered the issue; the image mode.
And one of the two you should always pick is "good".
Too often, too recently, and too many times have I either been directly affected by such a decision, or have born the brunt of having to work with a decision that's been made when trying to create something, such as software, where a choice has had to have been made between making it quickly, cheaply, or doing it well. You can only ever pick two. Unfortunately most people think you can pick fast and cheap, and that then making a good product will be fluked our will somehow just happen. It never does. Never.