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Matt is an English web designer based in Great Britain.
Those of you who don’t know me allow me to say hi, shake your hand (gents), give you a welcoming hug (ladies) and guide you to the about section.
The iPhone and other Retina displays require us to send high definition images to match the quality of native applications, or else our webpages will look low resolution and pixilated. Here's how to send HD images for CSS and HTML.continue reading
You can use CSS media queries to detect high definition displays and trigger the browser to use high-definition artwork. But there are no HTML attributes to do the same for image-replaced elements within the mark-up. We need a solution.continue reading
It's an oversized iPhonecontinue reading
Takeaway nugget of information: If you're wrapping block level elements in an anchor, remember to set the anchor to display:block; to avoid unexpected styling issues.continue reading
When you set an element to display:inline; or display:inline-block; browsers treat whitespace adjacent to the styled element as though it were content.continue reading
Over the last year I've discovered and watched a few Anime series - I've found it a gateway into Japanese culture and I'm loving it, so I'd like to tell you a little about Anime, and share some really entertaining series with you.continue reading
My passion for blogging may have vanished last year, but my passion for music hasn't changed one iota, so I've got to share some tunes that have been plastering great big smiles on my face over the last few months:continue reading
Wait, I have a blog?! Wow, I remember that. Blogs seem to have fallen by the wayside for a lot of people over the last year or two. Instead everyone is making micro-posts every few hours using services like Twitter or Facebook, and that seems to have sucked the life out of blogs in general. In steps Project 52, whereby people pledge to update their blog once a week for the whole of 2010. I've joined up, and there are over 500 people on that list now. I will not succeed, not every week. But I plan to make a damned good stab at it.continue reading
It turns out that I've recently found quite a talent for cooking, allow me to share a recipe...continue reading
Yesterday I vented my frustration with the CSS WG. Today I wonder how to address the problems.continue reading
A selection of noteworthy links I've recently discovered…
I would jump for joy if all they did was add no new features and fix the god-awful broken mess they so jokingly call a User Interface. As in I would literally get off my seat and bound around the office as though someone had strapped pogo-sticks to my legs with over-bounding joy if Adobe release a new product that doesn’t infuriate in new and fundamentally diabolical ways. Because I don’t think I can take much more of Adobe’s “improvements” without booking a plane ticket, heading to their offices, and going on a rampage screaming “remember before you bought Macromedia? Remember when you gave a shit about users rather than shareholders? Remember when you were good? DO THAT, mother******!” I know of no other software that can make my blood boil just because it’s so self-righteous that it refuses to understand the OS basic Cmd+Tab behaviour properly.
Dave Shea talks about the state of fonts on the web, and where it’s all heading. The future is pretty.
An absolutely beautiful animation, in a number of ways.
If you’re living in the UK, and you’d rather the government didn’t hold a complete database of every phone call, text message, and website you ever go on, you need to sign this petition.
A spot on assessment of the differences between purists and perfectionists, and why you want to be the later rather than the former.
PHP 4.4.9 was rolled out today, and marks the end of development for PHP4. So everyone jump to PHP5, now. PHP5.3 alpha was released today and includes namespaces; a feature planned for PHP6, but apparently pulled forward.
Cuil is a new search engine with a larger index than Google, built by former Google employees. It’s very interesting. Here are my first impressions:
I’d love to see the numbers behind this, considering their market sector. At last, IE6 is starting to die!
This goes one step further than my usual approach. Normally I include the browser chrome in the graphic, so the design has context. This idea is even better and I can’t believe I’ve not thought of it myself.
The much anticipated release of the third version of the best browser in the world didn’t go particularly smoothly.
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