Tag Archives: Web

Version Control for Designers

Version control for Designers (based on Git workflow):

“Version control, also known as source control or revision control is an integral part of any development workflow. Why? It is essentially a communication tool, just like email or IM, but it works with code rather than human conversation.”

(From Version Control for Designers.)

paulhammond.org: Conditional classnames

Interesting use of conditional comments:

If you use this HTML:

<!--[if IE ]>
  <body class="IE">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if !IE]>-->
  <body>
<!--<![endif]-->

with CSS that looks something like:

div.foo {
    color: inherit;
}
.ie div.foo {
    color: #ff8000;

then you get all of the advantages of using conditional comments to work around problems in Internet Explorer, without the extra HTTP request of an IE-only stylesheet.

(From paulhammond.org: Conditional classnames.)

Via Twitter (Simon Willison)

Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)

Interesting finds. This research shows, that OpenID is not yet for everybody and there’s a lot of work to be done to make this technology mass compatible.

“None of the users had heard of OpenID before, and none of them even noticed the OpenID sign-in box displayed below the traditional email/password login form on the site. In many cases, the test subjects entered their Yahoo email address and Yahoo password to try to log in. We had told the test subjects that they could sign into the site using their Yahoo! account without having to register.”

(From Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog).)

Me? I’m a…

Web Designer

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Via Swissmiss

A List Apart, The Survey, 2008

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Instapaper

“A fast, easy, free tool to save web pages for reading later.”

(From Instapaper.)

I’m late here, but this is such a great tool. I use it daily and it has an iPhone version, too. Now I need just an iPhone.