I don’t know what bit me but I had to have a go at some logos of the very much mentioned companies of any web standards talk in the last year:

Any other that spring to mind? If you’ve done one, just add it to the spoof20 flickr pool

[tags]parody,logo,web2sillyness[/tags]

Both 24 ways and the German Webkrauts Advent Calendar released my submissions for this year tonight.

So, if you ever wanted to know a quick and esy way to integrate flickr photos in your site without a server side component go and have a read.

[tags]flickr,integration,24ways,webkrauts,JSON,photos,webdevtrick[/tags]

Interesting court case in terms of accessibility:

A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Treasury Department is violating the law by failing to design and issue currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired people. Judge James Robertson, in a ruling on a suit by the American Council of the Blind, ordered the Treasury to devise a method to tell bills apart. The judge wrote that the current configuration of paper money violates the Rehabilitation Act’s guarantee of “meaningful access.”

As reported by CNN.

I welcome this decision, as Dollars always confused the heck out of me – all the same size and same colour. The question is now what will be changed and how much it’ll cost.

[tags]accessibility,legal,law,money,dollars,USA[/tags]

I kept finding myself using the JSON output of del.icio.us more and more and wanted a wrapper method that retrieves the data with dynamic script tags and gives me back HTML I can immediately use.

Now I’ve got it. Check out Dishy – the del.icio.us JavaScript wrapper

You can retrieve your tags as a cloud, your latest links or links by tag in xFolk microformat/HTML form and you can retrieve and store all this info and cache it before the user of your site requests it.

Enjoy!

[tags]del.icio.us,delicious,tagclouds,JSON,javascript,delicious badge,delicioustoys,xFolk,microformats,webdevtrick[/tags]

From today onward I’ll be a follower of the CSS-Discuss mailing list and cease any posting on it.

I am simply tired of circular discussions, the same problems and (sometimes half-baked) solutions and nobody really taking the time to look for example at the amazing CSS discuss Twiki that offers good information collected over the years before asking once again why 100% height doesn’t work.

I don’t have any problems with people learning about CSS going there and asking for help and have given generously in the past, I have problems with people deliberately stopping solutions that have been proven to be flaky from dying out. The reasons might be because they have a business to defend based on these or simply don’t want to understand that web development involves more than HTML and CSS.

Another reason is the amount of religious debates about font-sizes, fluid vs. fixed, CSS hacks and so on and so forth going on and on and on and several list members showing an almost pavlovian desire to repeat what they said as the only true solution and nobody believed once again when their pet topic shows up.

I’ve had a good time during the 4 years on the list and many a good discussion. I learnt a lot and was very lucky to be able to share wisdom with Eric Meyer, Ingo Chao, Thierry Koblentz, Zoe M. Gillenwater, David Dorward, Christian Montoya, Adam Kuehn, Alex Robinson and many more. I hope to be able to still get the occassional gem from it, but it has slipped way down my daily to check list.

Hey, gives me more time to finish the new book and create some more stuff again :-)

[tags]CSS,mailinglists,evangelism,inertia,stagnation[/tags]