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Fonts for web design: a primer
By CraigGrannell · Thursday, July 3, 2008 21
This article provides a useful guide to all the fonts commonly available across platforms, which are therefore appropriate for use on web sites by designers. Read more…
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Applying color tints to web pages with SVG filters and JavaScript
By Ruud Steltenpool · Thursday, July 3, 2008 7
In this article Ruud Steltenpool presents a very interesting experiment of his that allows you to change web page colours on the fly using SVG and JavaScript - the solution makes use of feColorMatrix, linearGradient and foreignObject, and is packaged up as bookmarklets to allow end-users to easily make use of it. Read more…
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A browser sniffing warning: The trouble with Acid3 and TinyMCE
By Hallvord R. M. Steen · Thursday, July 3, 2008 9
In this article Hallvord Steen provides a warning about browser sniffing and why it is such a bad thing, by examining a recent bug discovered in Opera relating to compatibility with the TinyMCE editor. He also suggests a fix to this problem, involving "bug detection", a useful technique that can be applied to many other situations. Read more…
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Opera Skinning part 4: skin.ini element reference
By Lars Kleinschmidt · Friday, June 20, 2008 12
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Opera Skinning part 5: Tips and tricks
By Lars Kleinschmidt · Friday, June 20, 2008 3
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Opera Skinning part 3: Skin.ini explained
By Lars Kleinschmidt · Friday, June 20, 2008 1
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Opera Skinning part 2: Skinning examples
By Lars Kleinschmidt · Friday, June 20, 2008 1
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Opera Skinning part 1: Introduction
By Lars Kleinschmidt · Friday, June 20, 2008 18
In this series of articles, Opera skinning expert Lars Kleinschmidt provides the most complete analysis to date of the Opera skinning system. He first looks at the basics including how skins are packaged and how to make simple changes to your default skin, before going deep into how to customize every aspect of your Opera's look and feel by altering the graphics and contents of the skin.ini file. Every section of skin.ini is explored in detail. This series of articles is updated for Opera 9.5. Read more…