Sam’s random musings

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p>Opacity Bugs:

Given its relative new-ness of implementation, I hadn’t put the CSS opacity property through its paces yet. I found a situation today where it seemed to fit, and was a little surprised by the results.

Seems that of the three browsers that attempt to support it, only Opera really does it justice. Check out this test page and you’ll see what I mean. Hover the image to see the effects I’m describing:

hey lance check this out (also the .9999 vs 1 setting in the 2nd update)

(Via Dave Shea’s mezzoblue.)

There are a few must reads and a few must haves for anyone who is entering into the Cocoa/Objective-C development game, and you should know that Andy Matuchak is the source of at least two of them. His Sparkle.Framework for easily making your new application self updating is simply essential for any app these days, I think. Today someone pointed me to his Help With Apple Help and the Andy’s Help Toolkit and I have found another essential element to my quest to actually make a professional feeling and behaving application. Thank you Andy, you are the Cocoa Man today!

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p>Digital-Image Color Spaces:

“This (Digital-Image Color Spaces) is a good article on the current state of support for specified color spaces in images in browsers. I’m going to be changing a few things around here because of it. First of all, I’m going to be using and specifying the sRGB color space in web sized images, since I think right now I’m at non-color managed and effectively non-specified. Second, I’m probably going to be specifying AdobeRGB for any in-camera jpegs, to capture the wider gamut without losing too much precision. ”

(Via WiredFool.)

A really good read about the development challenges of the rangefinder based camera with some really great details of the nitty gritty type, nice techo read. I enjoyed.

Multiple IEs:

Just a quick note about a nice installer for running multiple versions of Internet Explorer (standalone). You can snag Multiple_IEs here. To be completely honest, this really isn’t a necessity beyond IE6 (because of the massive install base), so you can run it side by side with IE7.

Very useful to make a note of… someday I am sure I will need to care, right now just isn’t one of them

(Via Lockergnome Bytes.)

Screencast codec showdown:

Some really good samples of different codec choices to use in building screen casts, can’t wait until the final vote.

(Via Domain of the Bored.)

REST for toddlers:

100 Continue

“Mmm hmm…”

200 OK

“OK.”

201 Created

“You went pee-pee in the potty!”

(The real definitions might help if you don’t get them all.)

Funny click through if you want to see the rest… you have to be a real web geek parent to find this funny

(Via dive into mark.)

Keeping the cruft out of your release:

Sometimes during software development you need to hack something together temporarily just to see it working. You have no intention of leaving it like that.

couple of cool ideas, I use a class called ‘dev’ that borders in red 2 px rect.

(Via Signal vs. Noise.)