A little fun with Fireworks
June 2nd, 2005 | 2 Comments | Posted in Adobe, CSS, Graphics (Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, etc.), PHP/MySQL & JavaScript, Planning & Organization
Let’s try this tutorial A Fireworks Quickie – Using Text as a Mask today in class @ 2:30 p.m.. Be sure to have a photo available to work with. Here are my results:
StyleGala has an interesting article, No more CSS Hacks, on using PHP detect browsers and serve CSS accordingly.
A Few Tips On Estimating Web Projects may be helpful to those of you who are considering starting your own web businesses.
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June 2nd, 2005 at 2:31 pm
Re: No more CSS hacks – umm… No! I disagree emphatically. In this scheme, where is Konqueror? iCab? Where is there room for a new generation of handheld browsers? Which version of Netscape – version 7 or the rebranded Firefox, Netscape 8, just released?
Also, why is this needed? Sticking to web standards satisfies modern browsers – no hacks usually needed. Microsoft kindly provides “conditional comments” to style that oddball set of browsers. Put IE6 in “quirks mode” and you can treat it the same as IE5 on Windows. This looks to me like a solution in search of a problem.
OTOH – I have seen server-side scripting used to detect the browser to determine if it can be served strict XHTML with the correct MIME type of application/xhtml+xml. Modern browsers can take advantage of this, while those like IE that don’t understand XML get plain HTML.
Re: the estimating tips. Thanks for that. I found the comments more helpful than the article. He also links to a very pertinent post by Andy Budd:
10 Bad Project Warning Signs – May 31, 2005
http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2005/05/10_bad_project_warning_signs/
Kind regards. David.
June 2nd, 2005 at 2:55 pm
Oops. My bad.
(quote) I have seen server-side scripting used to detect the browser …(/quote)
Not quite true. The script actually reads the HTTP_ACCEPT header that every browser sends when you ask for a web page. That header tells the script if it’s okay to send XML back to the browser. No browser detection involved.
Sorry.