CSS Centering 101

How to center a fixed-width layout with CSS?

SimpleBits explains it with a brief but clear example: CSS Centering 101.

Windows XP SP2 upsets people

... like Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe.  In fact the (siltent) installation of DRM (Digital Rights Management) is what upsets him.

 

By installing SP2 (and DRM technology) Microsoft or its business partners can prevent you from accessing files on your own hard drive.  That's unacceptible indeed, but not if you don't have rights to access the file (like when it is an illegal copy).  If you do, there's nothing to worry about I think.

 

Tristan switched to Fedora Core 2 anyway, which I'm also trying out.  But saying goodbye to Microsoft Windows definitely would be a step to far for me.

Absolute and Relative positioning

Sometimes I need to explain to my fellow designers/developers the concepts of absolute and relative positioning.  No big deal.  The tricky part is when I come to the concept of absolute relative positioning.

 

And that's where Joe Gillespie comes in: Absolutely relative, a clear overview of absolute and relative positioning and how to mix them with a few simple examples.

Firefox Extensions Guide

Flexbeta has posted an in-depth guide to a number of the well known, and not so well known extensions available for Mozilla Firefox. It covers close to 30 different extensions, including web developer tools, full application add-ons, existing feature enhancements and more.

 

Read the complete article here.

WEB STYLE GUIDE, 2nd edition

As this is nothing new to me ;) it's a nice reference though: WEB STYLE GUIDE, 2nd edition

Apache Software Foundation rejects Microsoft's Sender ID

Apache would not use a Microsoft technology to fight spam, called 'Sender ID'.

"The current Microsoft Royalty-Free Sender ID Patent License Agreement terms are a barrier to any ASF project which wants to implement Sender ID" according to Apache and Apache further states that the current license is "incompatible with the Apache License 2.0".

It looks like Microsoft is defining its own 'open' internet standard again and tries to take (financial) benefit of a global threat that it created itself by delivering poorly secured software.

Update: Today also Debian announced they cannot implement Sender ID technology as the Microsoft Royalty-Free License Agreement is a barrier to any Debian package which wants to implement Sender ID or include Sender ID support.

Microsoft's Security Program Manager uses Firefox

In this month's Wired Magazine, Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft's Security Program Manager, admits he uses Mozilla's Firefox browser <quote>Just this morning I had to install an update to Firefox to block a flaw that would've allowed an attacker to run a program on my system</quote>.

OK, this doesn't necessarily mean that he doesn't use Microsoft Internet Explorer, and in fact means that Firefox also can contain bugs.

But it does mean that at least 1 person in Redmond found the Start button of his Brain OS :)

Mozilla.org has a website

They always had, but the renewed it. And it looks good!

Check it out here en take a look at the News Feeds too.

More people talking about it:

Asa Dotzler

Ben Goodger

David Tenser

Ten CSS tricks you may not know By Trenton Moss

On The Code Project, Trenton Moss lists 10 very easy and usefull CSS tricks:

1. CSS font shorthand rule


2. Two classes together


3. CSS border default value


4. !important ignored by IE


5. Image replacement technique


6. CSS box model hack alternative


7. Centre aligning a block element


8. Vertically aligning with CSS


9. CSS positioning within a container


10. Background colour running to the screen bottom

Read it al on CodeProject.

Ben Goodger says: "Buh-bye VersionCheck"

Firefox Update web service is being updated, better said: the current service that never worked is being replaced by a brand new one. Quoting Mike Shaver: "it's much faster and smoother than before, ben and vlad did excellent work"

 

Ben Goodger says: "Buh-bye VersionCheck"