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An exercise in critical thinking and writing by Joey Day

Month: February, 2004

Transparent Backgrounds

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It’s Magic!

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I’ve written before about alpha transparency in PNG images. I’ve always wanted to use the effect to give a semi-transparent background to divs on my site. Unfortunately, since IE can’t render PNGs properly, the appearance of the site would break for 90% of all Internet users.
I’ve been designing a new site for the Crimson [...]

Debugging Woes

This made me laugh: “Beware of strangers“. If you’ve ever debugged a program, you’ll have a good idea what was going through this guy’s head.

Mozilla Firefox 0.8

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On Monday, Mozilla announced the release of version 0.8 of their standalone browser, formerly named Mozilla Firebird. Version 0.8 carries a new moniker: Mozilla Firefox. The name took a few minutes to grow on me (after I got over the initial question, Why a name change?). “Firefox” is apparently another name for the Chinese red [...]

Clear Your Cache

I’ve put up a new site theme for Valentine’s Day, but all the graphics and stylesheets kept the same names. If the logo graphic looks funny or if you are still seeing the blue background, try a hard-refresh (Ctrl+F5, which reloads all the graphics, ignoring anything that may already be in cache) or try clearing [...]