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CSS hacks series
Note: This article may be out of date; please read the version on my personal blog at http://thomas.tanreisoftware.com/?p=11.
This is an updated version of an article I first released December 2005. Good thing I updated it. Some hacks have changed entirely, due to the upcoming WebKit and the fact that Konqueror is much further along in their CSS 3 support then I thought. Update: A commenter on my blog has now found a selector able to filter/target IE7; thanks Phil! more »
Heimdal 1, MIT Kerberos 0
I have lots of Gentoo-related updates since my vacation ended. Skype, Opera 9, and Internet Explorer with Adobe SVG are working, but numerous packages need numerous hacks to get working. more »
Minefield is right.. good name, Mozilla! :)
I find Minefield, Firefox 3.0’s alpha release stunning. The new Cairo renderer brings my SVG almost on-par with Adobe SVG 3, which is no small feat. It still starts crawling when I load up a few thousand glyphs from my previous article; but I find I must do this. Why? more »
Coping with lost properties after appendChild (revised)
I posted what I thought was a working solution here a few days ago, and quickly found out that it wasn’t when I extended my test-case to a few more properties. I’m still stumped as to why this particular error happens; if anyone can tell me why please do. The error is basically this more »
Converting TTF fonts for use in Mozilla SVG
Firefox still does not support much in the way of SVG fonts. This includes the glyph element, which is unfortunate since it is quite useful and many blah-to-SVG conversion tools create glyphs, instead of paths. This technique will get you glyphs from your favorite TTF, with any luck.. more »