Archives: 2009 November

What is Google Chrome OS?

Nov 19

A short—highly annoying—introduction to Google Chrome OS.

Ligature, Loop & Stem is a beautifully designed website selling typography related items, but as an e-commerce site it isn't the most effective. It took me a long time to realise that they have more than one product for sale. If you scroll down the page to see the main content you hide the navigation section of the site, thus preventing you from viewing all their items for sale.

(Via SimpleBits.)

IE 9: Standards and Interoperability

Nov 19

Ian FieldhouseWeb Standards No Comments

Interesting that a post about standards and interoperability includes a video that requires the proprietary Silverlight player.

IE 9: Standards and Interoperability

To be fair to Microsoft though they do provide downloads of the video in a variety of formats—although the download link could do with being a bit more prominent.

Twitter Updates for 2009-11-19

Nov 18

Ian FieldhouseTwitter No Comments

Craziest beard ever http://bit.ly/4my2MA #
ʬ: Web Font Specimen http://icio.us/3imngt #

Twitter Updates for 2009-11-18

Nov 17

Ian FieldhouseTwitter No Comments

ʬ: Learning Advanced JavaScript http://icio.us/gkv3a2 #

Twitter Updates for 2009-11-16

Nov 15

Ian FieldhouseTwitter No Comments

Tiring the kids out at Vogrie Country Park.
http://bit.ly/34Sgko #

OpenOffice Mouse — WTF?!

Nov 09

Ian FieldhouseHardware No Comments

I thought this was a joke at first, but apparently OpenOffice are going to make an 18 button mouse. WTF?!

OpenOffice Mouse

What does this say about of the complexity of your software if you think it necessary that your users may require an 18 button mouse?

Twitter Updates for 2009-11-06

Nov 05

Ian FieldhouseTwitter No Comments

15 of the Meanest CAPTCHAs ever - Oddee.com http://bit.ly/V5YBT #
A cheap little lunch in NY for Roman Abramovich and 5 rriends http://bit.ly/3aCaMS — Wish I could be a waiter there! #