In this post I would like to outline the basic workflow I follow when designing and building a website from the ground up. This is by no means a complete list, its intention is to clarify for myself, if anything, the basic steps required and hopefully to give some pointers to aspiring developers on how [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Fix Firefox Button Padding
June 22nd, 2010 
Dan Phillimore As we all know by now, consistently styling form elements with CSS is virtually impossible. However, with a few tweaks and after reading Firefox’s user-agent CSS file forms.css, I discovered the following: button::-moz-focus-inner, input[type="reset"]::-moz-focus-inner, input[type="button"]::-moz-focus-inner, input[type="submit"]::-moz-focus-inner, input[type="file"] > input[type="button"]::-moz-focus-inner { border:1px dotted transparent; padding:0 2px; } … Firefox uses pseudo-elements within the button elements themselves [...]
Useful Intel x86 emulator development links
June 22nd, 2010 Dan Phillimore After looking over the many piles of paper lying around with hastily-scribbled notes on, some of which were starting to fall behind cupboards or collect numerous coffee rings, I decided to start noting things down on this blog instead. This post is mainly intended to serve as an aide-mémoire, used in a recent project of [...]
Posted in Emulators, Projects 
Tags: 80486, emulation, i486, ia-32, intel, virtual machine, virtualization, x86 
No Comments »Smoothly scale images in IE (-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic)
June 22nd, 2010 Dan Phillimore Today I discovered a much-improved method to fix IE7′s default image-resizing behaviour: as described in this Flickr post it is possible to tweak IE7 into applying the (much smoother) Bicubic interpolation method when scaling images. The result is depicted in this archived post here (which also happens to provide a solution for IE6, using the [...]
