A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Yes that’s right, if you have a metallic object on your side, it will be the same color as the background and therefore completely invisible to both visual and automated inspection. While I carried the metal case empty, by one with mal-intent, it could easily have been filled with razor blades, explosives, or one of …
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Google has zapped Google Music, and the Android Market and in return has launched Google Play. Now your favorite music, books, movies, apps, and games are all in one place that’s accessible from the Web and any Android device. Discover, buy and share like never before. Google Play → About Google Play →
We’ve been using floats for layout pretty much since we left tables behind. It’s a quirky solution that can often cause troubles, but if you know what you’re doing, it works. One interesting alternative to floats that people are turning to more and more lately is to set the display value of an element to …
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text-indent: -9999px; revisitedTurns out, this works even better (and is more concise): .hide-text { text-indent: 100%; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; } As Zeldman put it: Really long strings of text will never flow into the container because they always flow away from the container. Performance is dramatically improved because a 9999px box is not drawn. Noticeably so …
Recently I started testing how proportional scaling of bigger layouts would work in reality and if it makes any sense. It’s possible when using EM units and then changing body’s font-size when viewport’s height grows above certain point. Basically that means, that I have to change only one or two css properties between @media queries …