Browsing Elsewhere

Stephen M. Myers 1942-2008 As demanding as he was passionate, Stephen was one of my favorite professors at SCAD. So it goes. 

CSS Wishlist I can’t speak for the other interviewees but CHOCKLOCK was definitely off when I composed my response. I think all the shouting makes us come across more crotchety than any of us really were. (Turns out Chris just forgot a </CHOCKLOCK> somewhere in his markup—all better now.) 

Hello Old Friend Or “Specifying font-size with pixels no longer considered harmful.” Mint says IE 6 usage is down to less than 2% of visitors around these parts. 

The Remnants Ze Frank in a pilot for what looks like The Office meets zombies (one of which was coincidentally named Stan). I would so watch this. 

CSS Filters for Firefox, Safari and Opera Of particular interest are the Firefox and Opera filters, both of which seem to seat the text baseline oddly high at smaller font-sizes relative to line- and x-height. 

Replica “…designed on a very reduced and religiously strict grid which defined each and every design decision. In place of the 700 units for standard caps height in Fontlab, the grid was reduced to just 70 units. This arbitrary simplifaction and self-induced restriction strongly influences the shape of each individual glyph.” Gorgeous. 

Senuti Free OS X app for copying your songs off an iPod or iPhone into your iTunes Library. Handy for recovering lost songs after a crash or converting your old G5 into a coffee table. 

Sidebar Workshops If web design and development events were like comic book super groups Sidebar would be the Fantastic Four. I’ll leave it to our intrepid readers to decide who’s who. 

Afloat A Leopard app that adds a few extra options to Cocoa application Window menus, allowing you to do things like keep specific windows on top regardless of which application has focus. (via a tweet) 

Validator app for OS X Linked everywhere a while back. Handy for days when the W3C’s “Validate by file upload” feature appears to be hosed (today seems to be one such day) or when you’re offline (say, traveling). Drag and drop to validate local files couldn’t be easier.