Monthly Archives: May 2009

Zeus Comics redesign

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Chris Williams

If for no other rea­son than finally con­sol­i­dat­ing the past five years of css style changes into some sem­blance of orga­ni­za­tion, this redesign was a long time com­ing. Zeus Comics and Collectibles is an award-​winning comic book retail store in Dallas, … Continue read­ing →

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YouTube’s H.264 turnaround time is the new dial up

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Chris Williams

Just how long does it take for a YouTube video to become avail­able on the YouTube iPhone app? Seriously, if YouTube accepts .wmv, .avi, .mkv, .mov, .mpeg, .mp4, .flv, .ogg, 3gp and out­puts to mul­ti­ple .flv, mp4, 3gp… OMG, why then … Continue read­ing →

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Fun with WebKit css gradients

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Chris Williams

As a fol­low up to yesterday’s woe­ful tale of using WebKit’s pro­pri­etary css prop­er­ties, I wanted to fol­low up with a cou­ple exam­ples of how one can use these fea­tures with­out get­ting all “bevel-​ly” The only ben­e­fit of text-​shadow is not down­load­ing graph­ics … Continue read­ing →

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–webkit-​background-​clip Problems

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Chris Williams

Someday, all the nifty Photoshop Blending options will be avail­able as CSS prop­er­ties. Mark my words! In the mean time, we’re kind of stuck with drop shad­ows, and now gra­di­ents (and text strokes) for WebKit browsers. Too bad you can’t … Continue read­ing →

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