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Robert Denton - web strategist and designer

Perpetual nodesign in process…
the cobbler's shoes and all that.

Archive for June, 2004

Window.print - Mac browsers

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

Back in 2003 I lamented the fact that Safari did not support window.print—no clue why it was left out early on.

It has worked for some time now, and it is supported in Gecko based browsers. Natch, IE5 on the mac will never support window.print… no worries, it’s a dead browser. It was the best browser [...]

macosxhints - Disable the touch switches on Apple LCD monitors

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

macosxhints – Disable the touch switches on Apple LCD monitors
Hold down Shift and Command and then click on the Displays preference panel.

Quit System Preferences, then hold down Shift and Command and touch the Brightness switch on the front of the monitor.

Gotta love hidden features.

macosxhints - 10.3: A fix for local drives not mounting until user login

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

macosxhints – 10.3: A fix for local drives not mounting until user login

Ray-Bans

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

Ray-Ban official website

The worst flash implementation ever? No, it’s not horrible but it’s annoying and slow, so I guess it is horrible.

At the end of the day html would have been better, faster, more accessible, as feature rich, and easier to use.

As it stands navigating the Optical Collection is done by scrolling one of [...]

How to cover an IE windowed control (Select Box, ActiveX Object, etc.) with a DHTML layer.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

How to cover an IE windowed control (Select Box, ActiveX Object, etc.) with a DHTML layer.

Not a wholly CSS solution but this article is a good pointer to why you can not cover a form element with any element you wish to make visible, most often a drop down menu, in Windows Internet Explorer.

There is [...]

Start-up shrinks PC to palm size | CNET News.com

Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

Start-up shrinks PC to palm size | CNET News.com

I want this in a bad way… Easy to read with, light to carry, plenty of muscle for web/email/cmd line coding or probably even a simple text editor which is all I will probably use on WinXP.

Wonder if it runs Linux!!?

Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

The Evolution of Corporate Web Sites

youngpup.net - index

Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

youngpup.net – index

Whitespace

Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

Whitespace

WordPress Support — MT Migration and philosophical musing

Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

WordPress Support—MT Migration and philosophical musing

Stevarino.com

Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

Stevarino.com