Blot attended the Future of Web Applications (FOWA) event this month, and very interesting it was. Held at the Sun Microsystems building in Linlithgow, FOWA is an event for the web developer community that looks at what’s happening in the industry and what might happen in the future.
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Email has become an essential part of most people’s life, it’s hard to remember what it was like before we had it. You’d think by now it would be a pretty smooth running thing, but it is the absolute bane of web designer’s lives. What is essentially a simple and straightforward service can cost us hours of (unpaid) toil and trouble.
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What a beautiful font Helvetica is. It is available in so many different flavours too - the designer is spoiled for choice. However, designers, especially Mac designers, need to be aware that Helvetica looks terrible on Windows.
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As Web 2.0 kind of guys, we often use Javascript and opacity CSS to fade elements in and out or to make areas semi-transparent. The major browsers cater for opacity in slightly different ways, but the one that gives the most problems is - you guessed - Internet Explorer.
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Soon we will see that rental properties must have an Energy Performance Certificate, which rates how effective the property’s energy usage is on a scale of A to G, A being the most effective. No doubt you’ve seen similar certificates on refrigerators and freezers.
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