Maand: september 2004

Absolute and Relative positioning

Sometimes I need to explain to my fellow designers/developers the concepts of absolute and relative positioning.  No big deal.  The tricky part is when I come to the concept of absolute relative positioning.
 
And that’s where Joe Gillespie comes in: Absolutely relative, a clear overview of absolute and relative positioning and how to mix them with a few simple examples.

Absolute and Relative positioning

Sometimes I need to explain to my fellow designers/developers the concepts of absolute and relative positioning.  No big deal.  The tricky part is when I come to the concept of absolute relative positioning.
 
And that’s where Joe Gillespie comes in: Absolutely relative, a clear overview of absolute and relative positioning and how to mix them with a few simple examples.

Apache Software Foundation rejects Microsoft’s Sender ID

Apache would not use a Microsoft technology to fight spam, called ‘Sender ID‘.
“The current Microsoft Royalty-Free Sender ID Patent License Agreement terms are a barrier to any ASF project which wants to implement Sender ID” according to Apache and Apache further states that the current license is “incompatible with the Apache License 2.0”.
It looks like Microsoft is defining its own ‘open’ internet standard again and tries to take (financial) benefit of a global threat that it created itself by delivering poorly secured software.

Update: Today also Debian announced they cannot implement Sender ID technology as the Microsoft Royalty-Free License Agreement is a barrier to any Debian package which wants to implement Sender ID or include Sender ID support.

Apache Software Foundation rejects Microsoft’s Sender ID

Apache would not use a Microsoft technology to fight spam, called ‘Sender ID‘.
“The current Microsoft Royalty-Free Sender ID Patent License Agreement terms are a barrier to any ASF project which wants to implement Sender ID” according to Apache and Apache further states that the current license is “incompatible with the Apache License 2.0”.
It looks like Microsoft is defining its own ‘open’ internet standard again and tries to take (financial) benefit of a global threat that it created itself by delivering poorly secured software.

Update: Today also Debian announced they cannot implement Sender ID technology as the Microsoft Royalty-Free License Agreement is a barrier to any Debian package which wants to implement Sender ID or include Sender ID support.

Ten CSS tricks you may not know By Trenton Moss

On The Code Project, Trenton Moss lists 10 very easy and usefull CSS tricks:

  1. CSS font shorthand rule
  2. Two classes together
  3. CSS border default value
  4. !important ignored by IE
  5. Image replacement technique
  6. CSS box model hack alternative
  7. Centre aligning a block element
  8. Vertically aligning with CSS
  9. CSS positioning within a container
  10. Background colour running to the screen bottom

Read it al on CodeProject.

Microsoft’s Security Program Manager uses Firefox

In this month’s Wired Magazine, Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft’s Security Program Manager, admits he uses Mozilla’s Firefox browser <quote>Just this morning I had to install an update to Firefox to block a flaw that would’ve allowed an attacker to run a program on my system</quote>.
OK, this doesn’t necessarily mean that he doesn’t use Microsoft Internet Explorer, and in fact means that Firefox also can contain bugs.
But it does mean that at least 1 person in Redmond found the Start button of his Brain OS 🙂

Microsoft’s Security Program Manager uses Firefox

In this month’s Wired Magazine, Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft’s Security Program Manager, admits he uses Mozilla’s Firefox browser <quote>Just this morning I had to install an update to Firefox to block a flaw that would’ve allowed an attacker to run a program on my system</quote>.
OK, this doesn’t necessarily mean that he doesn’t use Microsoft Internet Explorer, and in fact means that Firefox also can contain bugs.
But it does mean that at least 1 person in Redmond found the Start button of his Brain OS 🙂