Archive for July, 2010

HTML5 Elements and Attributes

Annotated list of elements in HTML5, ranging from the classic <p> to <base>, <time>, etc.
 

World cup

World cup

Shot by Shana. Note: if you take a look at the largest size you can see the game reflected in my specs.

 

A List Apart: Articles: Supersize that Background, Please!

"With an advertising world keen to use every inch of a medium for brand or product experience, it is becoming increasingly popular to design websites with full-browser backgrounds. Using CSS, this can be achieved quite easily. Just drop a huge background image in a page with one line of code"
 

Alejandra Laviada: De-construction Sites

"Alejandra Laviada is having a breakthrough. Literally. These days, when the 29-year-old photographer goes to her makeshift studio in one of the run-down abandoned office buildings that fill Mexico City’s historic center, she brings her camera, her tripod, and a large hammer. She takes a swing at a wall. And then she takes her shot."
 

Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures

text-rendering css property that seems to mostly work just in safari.
 

Skeuomorph

"A skeuomorph or skeuomorphism (Greek: skeuos—vessel or tool, morphe—shape)[1] is a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original." Nice find, Carl.