A quick one: (ab)using mediaqueries to not serve CSS to IE < 9

Planet Mozilla

⚡️A quick one: (ab)using mediaqueries to not serve CSS to IE < 9 I am right now writing a post on how to use :target selectors for image galleries. As always, older IE are the fly in the ointment there as only IE9 supports the selector. So I thought about…

22 February 2012

A simple image gallery using only CSS and the :target selector

Planet Mozilla

Back in the old days of web development and when CSS2 got support I always cringed at “CSS only” demos as a lot of them were hacky to say the least. With CSS growing up and having real interaction features it seems to me though that it is time to…

22 February 2012

Why Corporate Cloud Storage Doesn't Add Up

Slashdot

snydeq writes "Deep End's Paul Venezia sees few business IT situations that could make good use of full cloud storage services, outside of startups. 'As IT continues in a zigzag path of figuring out what to do with this "cloud" stuff, it seems that…

22 February 2012

A web in HTML5 canvas

Planet Mozilla

Whenever there is an open forum to discuss HTML5, you get very interesting questions. Sometimes you also get ones you just facepalm to. One of them was yesterday on Facebook where someone wanted a “simple web in HTML5”. As I was bored watching “revenge of…

21 February 2012

How to convert MySQL’s SHOW PROFILES into a real profile

MySQL Performance Blog

SHOW PROFILES shows how much time MySQL spends in various phases of query execution, but it isn’t a full-featured profile. By that, I mean that it doesn’t show similar phases aggregated together, doesn’t sort them by worst-first, and doesn’t show the…

20 February 2012

Tetris In 140 Bytes

Slashdot

mikejuk writes "Is it possible to write a JavaScript program in no more than a tweet's length? A website called 140byt.es says it is and has an implementation of Tetris to prove it. Ok, it only has two types of block — hence its title "Binary Tetris"…

19 February 2012

Why don’t our new Nagios plugins use caching?

MySQL Performance Blog

In response to the release of our new MySQL monitoring plugins on Friday, one commenter asked why the new Nagios plugins don’t use caching. It’s worth answering in a post rather than a comment, because there is an important principle that needs to be…

19 February 2012

Updating to Xcode 4.3

Use Your Loaf

Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, As if all the excitement of Mountain Lion was not enough for this week Apple has also pushed out Xcode 4.3. The big change is that Xcode is now a standard Mac App Store package which…

18 February 2012