Archives April 2011

IE Freaks Out On Media Queries

So I've been playing around with CSS3 media queries to target css stylesheets to particular browsers based on the min-width and max-width selectors. Basically if you've got a tiny viewing screen, like on a mobile phone, you should get one stylesheet and if you've got a bigger browsing screen, you get the main stylesheet. Works wonderfully on all the last generation browsers, like Opera 10 and Firefox 3. But... unfortunately during some testing for a new client site under development, I discovered that IE croaks on it. Just completely barfs and fails to render any of the ...

The Familiarity Trap and Why The WhatWG Are The Wrong Cowpath To Follow

During the Scandanavian saga of Nokia announcing plans to kill Hamlet, Robert Scoble tweeted a link to a blog post purporting to explain why Nokia developers were so aghast at the death of Hamlet. Basically it said that devs worked hard to be the big man on the app store and that a switch of the development platform would produce an unacceptable loss of prestige among their development community. (In this case I actually see it as a problem where the new platform has no chance of producing a greater market than the existing platform and therefore is a massive ...

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