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I recently had to convert a database of a large greek website from single-byte greek to Unicode (UTF-8). One of the problems I faced was the stored PHP serialized data: As PHP stores the length of the data (in bytes) inside the serialized string, the stored serialized strings could not be unserialized after the conversion. [...]
The original idea belongs to André Luís, but I think it could be improved to be much less verbose. André’s solution is like this: /* one item */ li:nth-child(1):nth-last-child(1) { width: 100%; } /* two items */ li:nth-child(1):nth-last-child(2), li:nth-child(2):nth-last-child(1) { width: 50%; } /* three items */ li:nth-child(1):nth-last-child(3), li:nth-child(2):nth-last-child(2), li:nth-child(3):nth-last-child(1) { width: 33.3333%; } /* [...]
You’re probably familiar with CSS3 gradients by now, including the closer to the standard Mozilla syntax and the ugly verbose Webkit one. I assume you know how to add multiple color stops, make your gradients angled or create radial gradients. What you might not be aware of, is that CSS3 gradients can be used to [...]
This might seem elementary to those of you that are DBAs or something similar, but it was fascinating to find out (not to mention it greatly helped what I had to do), so I decided to post it, in case it helps someone else too. A few moments ago I found out that whereas a [...]
While taking a look on the 2nd 24ways article for 2009, I was really surprised to read that “The Web Storage API is basically cookies on steroids, a unhealthy dosage of steroids. Cookies are always a pain to work with. First of all you have the problem of setting, changing and deleting them. Typically solved [...]
While exploring browser-supported Unicode characters, I noticed that apart from the usual @ and . (dot), there was another character that resembled an @ sign (0xFF20 or ＠) and various characters that resembled a period (I think 0×2024 or ․ is closer, but feel free to argue). I’m wondering, if one could use this as [...]
Yesterday, I was editing a CSS file and I was wondering how many bytes/KB would a particular addition add to it, in order to decide if it was worth it. Since, I had found myself wondering about the exact same thing multiple times in the past, I decided to make a simple standalone HTML page [...]
Yeah, yeah I know, bevels are soooo 1996. And I agree. However, it’s always good to know the capabilities of your tools. Talented designers will know when it’s suitable to use a certain effect and incapable ones will abuse whatever is given to them, so after a lot of thought, I decided to blog about [...]
I just read Jakob Nielsen’s recent post in which he urged web designers/developers to stop password masking due to it’s inherent usability issues. I found it an interesting read. Hey, at last, someone dared to talk about the elephant in the room! In most cases password masking is indeed useless, but still, there are several [...]
First of all, sorry for my long absence! I haven’t abandoned this blog, I was just really, really busy. I’m still busy, and this probably won’t change soon. However, I will still blog when I get too fed up with work or studying (this is one of these moments…). Now, let’s get to the meat. [...]