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NickCowie.com
http://nickcowie.com
Web design and development concentrating on web standards, accessibility and elastic design.
Recent Posts
My chest filled to explode
Apologies to David McComb. For those who do not follow my twitter feed, I will tell you what happened over the past few days. I was riding to work on Friday morning, when I started having a pain in the chest. Mild pain which I have been getting rece...
RGBa backgrounds in IE
RGBa is the new black, with support in most modern Safari 3, Firefox 3 and Opera 10, you can have semi transparent elements. Only there is no support currently in IE for RGBa. However, you can easily fake it for backgrounds of block elements in IE w...
Why use CSS Zen Garden for CSS3 demo
For those who have not seen my Edge of the Web CSS3 demonstration I used the CSS Zen Garden HTML. Why, because I wanted to use somebody else’s HTML, mainly because I wanted to show it works with any HTML and that most people would be familiar with ...
CSS3 presentations at EOTW09 and WebJam11
I really enjoyed developing my presentation for Edge of the Web. The research and experimentation was a lot of fun. Explore the demo using CSS Zen Garden HTML and seriously try it in IE6, the WebJam presentation with some even more outrageous trans...
The League of Moveable Type
I just admire The League of Moveable Type. While a lot of font foundries are still working on licensing issues with embedding fonts in PDFs. here a couple of font designers discovered @font-face and went lets make the world a better place. By creatin...
I am on the Edge of the Web
Well I am speaking at the Edge of the Web Conference in Perth in November. The title Progressive Enhancement with CSS: Or how I stopped worrying about IE6 and starting loving CSS3. The aim is to show how you can use CSS2 and CSS3 to improve the exper...
