Topic: Rants

The following posts are filed under Rants.

Bye Bye, Billy

So Bill Gates is retiring from his position of Chairman of Microsoft. What now? I don’t know. I don’t see much of an impact. Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


Sandbox designs and IE6 support

I have a feeling that I should get Potassium and Bromine (and my future Sandbox designs) to at least mostly if not fully support IE6. After all, these are CSS (and sometimes image) designs, meaning the Sandbox theme’s template HTML should remain completely intact.
Currently, Potassium and Bromine work in all browsers but IE6, with IE7 [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


WP 2.5 will be delayed… again?

What?! WordPress 2.5’s release will be pushed FURTHER?! Well, that’s what Peter Westwood speculates, at least. Oh well, I’d rather wait for as many bugs to be squashed as possible instead. I am a very patient boy. Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


Potassium, IE and WordPress 2.3 tags

OK, I’m getting fed up of all this Internet Explorer crap. As you know, Potassium does NOT support IE6. However, my first upcoming WordPress theme and a slight handful of my future themes will support IE6, and all future themes from my birthday ‘08 will not support IE6.
Now to rant about my tag cloud and [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design

I was browsing the archives of an excellent web design site called Deziner Folio (which I highly recommend you check out for detailed Photoshop, XHTML and CSS tutorials and resources), then I saw this post that in turn links to this page and decided I should post about it too.
This pie chart depicts the breakdown [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


Comment spam woes

Either the spammer managed to work out an OCR bot that was even better than reCAPTCHA’s very own, or the reCAPTCHA WordPress Plugin simply isn’t working for me.
EDIT [4:15 pm]: Wow, I went to my Global Dashboard to check out my stats just now, and alas I see this:

I Googled just those two keywords, and [...] 2 comments. Read the complete article »


HTML5? Elementary, my dear W3C

Ever since the WHATWG decided to pick up on development of the good ‘ol HTML that hasn’t been worked on for over eight years (since HTML 4.01), the web designer and browser community has been getting pretty noisy. Right now, things are gonna take a TIGHT turn. A good turn, perhaps, for the semantic Web. Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


Congratulations to the SDC winners…

From the title of this post you could probably tell how disappointed I am.
EDIT [8/9]: Thanks for all your encouraging words, guys, I feel way much better and more motivated now. I think too much.
EDIT [8/8]: I can’t believe I forgot to plug a link to the results post. OK there you go.
You might think [...] 12 comments. Read the complete article »