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- Ethan Poole
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- Sat 29 Oct 2005 at 18:32
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It is very easy to assign an element two classes, as mentioned in the Lowter article, Four Quick CSS Tips. Another neat little tip is assigning styles to an element as long as it belongs to two specific classes.
First, assign the element two classes:
<div class="one two">...</div>
Then, use the following CSS to apply styling to an element of both classes:
div.one.two {
...
}
These styles will only be applied to an element that is assigned both classes, one and two in this case. You can also use this metho…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Fri 21 Oct 2005 at 21:54
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The browser wars are always continuing, with every web browser spitting out a new feature every time we turn our heads. The latest browser news is Opera Software released Opera 9 Preview 1, Firefox hit 100 million downloads, and Flock was released today.
Opera 9 Preview 1
Opera software released a preview version of Opera 9, code name Merlin. The interface mainly remained the same, with the main new item being a bookmark button in the address bar. Accounts are also stored in a different manner. There were a number of rendering impleme…
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- Daniel Malmqvist
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- Thu 13 Oct 2005 at 23:35
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To start our learning, let's learn how to make a real photo look like it was sketched. This will require Adobe Photoshop.
First, find a good picture. You should look for one that is high quality and of medium sized. I will use this one:
Now that you have found your image, follow the steps below:
1. Press CTRL+U and check the "Colorize" check box. Set the "Saturation" to 0.
2. Your picture should now be black and white. Now duplicate the layer, by right clicking the layer and selecting "Duplicate Layer."
3. Next, invert t…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Sun 9 Oct 2005 at 16:16
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Philip Miseldine is a recent Macintosh converter, around the same time as myself. Like most Apple users, he does not worry about computer viruses, and does not run any virus protection software. He recently wrote a blog entry about the security advantages in OS X.
I have never worried about security on my computers, mainly because I chose more secure software. Windows has one main weakness - Internet Explorer. Even on a Windows platform you can secure yourself through the one port for viruses - the Internet. Using Opera/M2 and Firefox/T…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Thu 6 Oct 2005 at 16:40
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Cnet's News.com today received a new layout, along with a "My News" feature that lets you filter news to your personal interests. The new layout is much more functional, showing more news and popular headlines on the front page.
Like all of Cnet's latest redesigns, this layout uses CSS for styling - an advantage for a much simpler and usable layout. The usability has been greatly improved, and they have adopted the popular tabular navigation format.
The only disadvantage to their new layout is for users who browse with smaller screen re…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Tue 4 Oct 2005 at 22:06
Hewlett Packard announced on Monday that they will be shipping the Netscape web browser on new consumer PCs and notebooks starting early next year. According to a Netscape representative, users will have the option to chose Netscape 8 as their default browser during computer setup.
Netscape 8 is a unique web browser that uses two rendering engines - Triton and Gecko. The Triton engine, used in Internet Explorer, is applied to websites that Netscape considers "safe." All other websites are rendered using the Gecko engine, used in Mozilla b…
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