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Giant Stress Cake, feeds four

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It turns out that I've recently found quite a talent for cooking, allow me to share a recipe...continue reading

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Mon, 8th Jun 2009 at 21:15 UTC

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How could the CSS WG could improve matters?

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Yesterday I vented my frustration with the CSS WG. Today I wonder how to address the problems.continue reading

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Thu, 7th May 2009 at 07:28 UTC

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My feelings on the effectivness of the W3C CSS Working Group

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No matter if we write on our own blogs or fumble around in the strange hoops, disjointed blogs, and antiquated mailing systems the W3C claim are "open dialogue"; designers are ignored or simply don't know they are being engaged (which means that they aren't being engaged at all)... The future of CSS layout and display is not going to be decided by any Working Group. It'll be decided by browser vendors who implement stuff they come up with after listening to designers (transitions, transforms, font embedding, etc), and for the next few years, it'll be all about JavaScript patching up display problems because CSS can't do what we want. I've seen it coming, many other's have seen it coming, not least Eric Meyer. I hate that, but that is exactly what is going to happen: we're going to rely on JavaScript for display.continue reading

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Wed, 6th May 2009 at 19:19 UTC

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What I've been up to in January

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Where have I been over the last month? Well, Christmas I went back home and got full blown Flu, so I spent from boxing day until the end of my holiday lying in bed, alternately sleeping and coughing. Other than that it was a nice Christmas. January has been busy.continue reading

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Sat, 31st Jan 2009 at 20:17 UTC

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The fundamental problems with CSS3

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This post brings to a head a lot of my thoughts and feelings with regard to CSS3 and the way the W3C is developing it. It does not aim to look at specific topics in detail, but to step back and question some fundamental issues that I feel need to be addressed.continue reading

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Tue, 9th Dec 2008 at 23:00 UTC

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Firefox jQuery Accordion bug with display:table-cell

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The goal is to produce a standard accordion menu, with the requirement that the parent buttons (the big grey ones) accommodate up to two lines of text, and that text must be aligned vertically to the middle. Button content may be dynamic, and so text-length is unknown: that means no hackery of providing a class for single-line buttons and a class for multi-line buttons.continue reading

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Fri, 5th Dec 2008 at 19:35 UTC

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An apology; I hate this website.

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Just a small note to anyone that visits here. I hate my website. It is a terrible reflection of my skills, it's unfinished, it's broken, it's three years old, it's out of date in many ways, forms don't work well, the user experience is poor. It embarrasses me, and it's a terrible advertisement for me considering I'm a professional web designer. In short, the site is getting a serious re-factoring over Christmas to bring it in-line with my skills and abilities today. If you're reading any technical articles and thinking my words are at odds with my site - you're right. You'd never know I walk the walk as well as talk the talk by looking at this. Time to kick things into shape.continue reading

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Thu, 4th Dec 2008 at 16:47 UTC

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YouTube embeded player includes search bar. That's a user interface screw-up.

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YouTube have started including a "brand bar" with search field in their embedded players. That's a bad idea for two reasons; firstly embedded players are in the context of another site, and shoving a YouTube bar in the player quite easily ruins carefully crafted designs: "hey look at the video! Let me grab your attention!". Secondly, this is an embedded player - it's there because the author of the page including the video thinks the content of the video is relevant to their audience. Given that is the only use case for embedding a video, why would anyone want to search youtube for a different video at that point? By all means include this new functionality, but do it after the video has played, you know, when it's relevant. Not before.continue reading

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Thu, 4th Dec 2008 at 16:27 UTC

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CSS Tables for layout are A Bad Idea.

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There has recently been quite a bit of attention paid to the idea of using CSS Tables for layout, now that all browsers support display:table; and its associated attributes. Using CSS to force layout in a table-like manner has been written about in books, talked about in blogs, and hailed as a revolution in CSS based design. It's not. It's really bad. Don't do it. I'm writing here to convince you why you shouldn't.continue reading

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Thu, 20th Nov 2008 at 14:29 UTC

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Studio Photography, Llandudno Fireworks 2008, and Kath's birthday party

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I've been neglecting the site again, but it's time for a quick catch-up and another batch of photo's. There are shots from a couple of photography sessions with the Bangor Photo Society, a few of the fireworks at Llandudno, and a few from Kath's 21st Birthday.continue reading

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Wed, 19th Nov 2008 at 20:57 UTC

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