G8 vaccine setback

"The G8 missed an opportunity on Saturday to fight disease in the world's poorest countries.."

..again.

On cross browser text size:

• Reminder: Cross browser font sizes
• Text Sizing
• Default Font Size: The Battle is Won
• Font Size

Personally I set the font size in the body at 80% and use percentage values for everything else (p 100%, h2 100%, h3 90%), no ems.

Three posts on graphic design by Noisy Decent Graphics:

• The future of graphic design
• The future of graphic design [2]
• The future of graphic design [3]

An interesting list: 9 ways to misunderstand web standards

Tim Berners-Lee on Net Neutrality (via webdevout's blog) :

• Neutrality of the Net
• Net Neutrality: this is serious

I agree, it's serious and it needs more attention that it has gotten so far.

On webdevout: Web browser standards support

On Airbag: a ruler to debug stylesheets.

I noticed that I had forgotten to add an anchor to the comments for linking purposes. Not that I get that many comments to link to..I just did it as a matter of functionality. I also tightened up the paragraphs a bit adding a margin:8px 0 to the CSS. One of those..

On Interconnected: making senses

On Clagnut: line breaks in tooltips

Amnesty International ad campaign

"It's not happening here but it's happening now"

Simple and effective. Hopefully it will raise people's awareness a bit..

Microformats and browsers:

• Microformats in Web Browsers
• Safari Microformats plugin

I published the code for the two "search forms" under the ␄search posts” feature on the home page of this site.

A list of Google ranking factors

On Nature: Hawking and Hertog rewrite history

"To understand the Universe we must start from the here and now"

On 456 Berea St :transparent custom corners and borders

On Computer Arts:
50 ways to become a better designer

On the Guardian: Aboriginal life expectancy

That's their land..or at least used to be.

Via Kottke.org: carbon dioxide glass

"..the work could even lead to new, less environmentally harmful ways to dispose of CO2"

Following yesterday's post I changed my URLs structure. Now they read:

http://sevencolors.org/post/post-title

I have written the code to keep backward compatibility: posts bookmarked with the previous structure will not be broken.

Graphic Push has an interesting article about URL structure

My URLs read like this:

http://sevencolors.org/post/###

which, thinking about it, only says that is a post and its number. I have noticed the spreading habit of using the title of the post and I think it makes sense. I use the post part because I have different categories. Maybe I will substitute the number with the post title..

On 456 Berea St :high resolution screen

Which, in turn, got me to find out about CSS units

On A List Apart: behavioral separation

I just posted about it but I think is good to insist.

The other article on A List Apart is about styling forms but I think that the solution proposed is too complicated. I like to keep it simpler. Also, display:inline-block does not validate.

The BBC's web site has a section dedicated to the human body and mind. Interesting tests and interactive articles.

I have been trying to find the best solution to the
inline wrap IE6 bug for a year. Right now I have to write a post then see how it looks on IE and add a <br /> tag to avoid wrapping of the links with the consequent external link icon loss. The solution offered in the post above doesn't work for me because the CSS does not validate using display:inline-block. I hope this bug will be fixed in IE7..

On Friendly Bit: 4 tier web development

I think of the 4 tiers as content, structure, presentation and behaviour. Almost the same. The content (or data) and the structure go together since, usually, there is (for example) a title that should be placed into a <h1> tag, chapters into <h2> etc. When it all looks readable without presentation then I add the design, using CSS. I don't like to add tags to accomodate design, I try to use only the tags necessary to the structure. The last layer (behaviour) should be unobtrusive, which basically means that is not mixed up with the structure but sits in an external file. I removed all inline Javascript calls after reading
separating behaviour and structure in 2004. The point of all this is just to build a site easy to update and apply changes to.

Garrett Dimon

"will be using a newly created flickr account to store and document the reviews (of web sites design details) in sets"

A very interesting idea.

On Friendly Bit:
beginners guide to CSS and standards

On The Guardian: disappeared, but not forgotten

Armaments, Disarmament and International Security:
SIPRI Yearbook 2006

The Chapter 8 is about military expenditure and makes me think about a previous post.

On Dean Edwards's site: prototype and base

Comments on this post are interesting too.

A nice optical illusion: spanish castle
and a tutorial explaining how to do it

On The Web Standards Project:
promoting the responsible use of JavaScript

On DOMScripting: Javascript teleprompter

A few articles from 456 Berea St. :

• style attributes and strict XHTML
• basics of SEO
• styling form controls

On Curiosity is bliss: XmlHttpRequest debugging

Encrypt text files: LockNote

On PHPBuilder: using XML-RPC

On Digital Web: internationalization primer

A Java applet: websites as graphs

David Byrne's journal

On Garret Dimon's site:AJAX and DOM Scripting

On ParticleTree:

• guide to prototyping Ajax 1
• guide to prototyping Ajax 2
• guide to prototyping Ajax 3

On the BBC:
ancient fig clue to first farming

On Vitamin:
responsible asynchronous scripting

On the Guardian: wages of chaos

As usual the people has to pay for all kind of political and economical reasons. I doubt that anybody, except the warlords and the powerful businessmen, understands what's going on. Western governments play their games and then the effects are felt all over the world. Famine, disease, poverty, desperation, illegal immigration. Fix the causes, don't patch the effects.

On the BBC: Arctic's tropical past