Javascript, 23 August 2010, 4 comments
Luckily, there is an easy fix: Just reset the favicon
Firefox has an annoying bug: If you set the window.location.hash, your favicon disappears. Very annoying. The bug has been open and confirmed for a long time, and Firefox 3.0 all the way to 3.6 are affected. But it hasn’t been fixed yet, so here’s how to fix it yourself.
F.lux is a small but very useful application: It fades your screens to a warmer color temperature in the evening. This is pleasant for your eyes and won’t leave you wide awake at 2am because your computer monitors are so bright. There are mac and windows versions, but only a commandline app for Linux. Together with Michael Herf, the author of F.lux, I made a version for Ubuntu.
A week ago on Friday I woke up with a great idea for a web app. I wrote the entire idea down in a couple of minutes, tweeted about it… and went to my grandma to fix her computer and talk about politics.
Without a doubt, positioning, or the layout, is the hardest part of CSS. Not only because it ever so often varies between browsers, but also because CSS has a lot of ways to position an element, all with various (dis) advantages. This series of articles…
With the soon-released FireFox 3.1, three of the four major browsers support text-shadow. That leaves just Internet Explorer with the lack of text-shadow. I have already taken care of that problem, but decided to wrap it up in a nice automated jQuery plugin.
How it works
One…
Cufón and Typeface.js are both methods to show text in custom fonts (like sIFR), are both only a couple of months old and both use canvas or VML. So what’s the difference? And which one is better?
How does it work?
Cufón and Typeface.js both work by…

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