07:59 PM
Designing Fool typographi.ca is back!

typographi.ca is back online! It was derailed by the Canadian crackdown on .ca domain registrations and I'd read in someone's blog that they had a Canadian resident to sponsor it but it's been offline for ages. In cleaning out my bookmarks, I happened to click on it and there it is!

Although I'm not entirely sure it's the same site, but at least there's something there.

02:58 AM
Designing Fool Microsoft tells everyone to violate copyright

Microsoft says:

A good way to settle on a design layout is to find and copy another page design, one that meets your needs. There are many design ideas on the Internet.

Never mind that they're espousing tables as the best way to layout a site, where were the Microsoft lawyers when the idiot who wote that decided to tell everyone to violate copyright????

Pay no attention to the stupid people at Microsoft. PLEASE.

Thanks to Nate at wg for spotting that beauty. If you'd like to tell Microsoft what you think of their support for violating copyright, steal their web design! No, really, instead go to the article, scroll to the bottom of the page, click on "NO" and tell them they need to update their page so it's not encouraging illegal activity.

04:28 PM
Designing Fool Igpay Atinlay

Huh? Come again?

1. "Language" is not a valid attribute for the html tag. Did someone completely remove the word "standards" from your brain?

2. Html is not javascript. Did you hear that? Let me repeat myself. Html is NOT javascript. Conversely, javascript is NOT html.

A doctype would have been a better start.

To see what I'm talking about, view source at MSN's spiffy new search website. (Gee, that site looks familar, hmm, it sort of reminds me of...what is it now...I know! Google! :) While Google doesn't have a doctype either, at least they're not trying to tell us that html = javascript.)

06:22 PM
Designing Fool Random acts of beauty

The Sensory Impact blog always finds beautiful things, also usually expensive too but this entry showcases a simple beauty, bits of folded paper into the most intricate shapes. Follow the link in the entry to the NY Times article (you may need to register but it's free and they don't spam you at all), these pieces of beauty were created by a professor of computer science who pioneered computational origami - which may sound lightweight, it's got practical applications with various materials, like folding sheet metal into a car body.

And if you've got an RSS newsreader, Sensory Impact has a feed so you can enjoy the beauty every day. :) If you're an LJ user, the LJ feed is here.

10:49 AM
Designing Fool blink, blink...

*alice picks herself off the floor* yowza, someone still using the <blink>, yikes!

blinketyblinkblink#$%#@#$%@#$%#@%#

06:16 PM
Designing Fool Computers have feelings too!

Posted to a CSS design list:

"...a client who uses AOL/NS 4.x on a Mac cube."

??!!!???!!! Now why would anyone do something that cruel to a Mac???