WNAS

This is really good news, I ( and with me every web developer in the world ) hope that this will start a wave in the corporate world. The last dominion of IE6 that is keeping the web from reaching it's full potential...

"‘We’re not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort,’ said one Google employee."

FT.com / Technology - Google ditches Windows on security concerns

What do you think, will this persuade other big companies to at least ditch IE6...

Surpise, surprise...

"Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with tiny Global Equities Research, contends that 7 minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been blocked off for a presentation by Microsoft (MSFT) to talk about Visual Studio 2010, the company’s suite of development tools. Chowdhry says the new version of VS will allow developers to write native applications for the iPhone, iPad and Mac OS. And here’s the kicker: he thinks Microsoft’s presentation could be given by none other than Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. (Or if not, at least Bob Muglia, who runs Microsoft’s server and tools business.)"

Will Steve Ballmer Show Up At The WWDC Keynote?

This article inspired me to do my own logo with border radius and data url's. I didn't read it at the time and just went ahead. Now I see that the logo looks great, really good job and a great explanation too. Looks like mine is not that clear :).

: "The Opera logo, rendered only with CSS, no images. "

Opera Logo with CSS · David DeSandro

"Collecting examples of creative, innovative, and unexpected use of emerging web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3."

HTML5 Watch

Google is going to compete with amazon's s3, sadly it's only for US citizens now. I would love to play with this and see how it compares...

"Google Storage for Developers is a new service for developers to store and access data in Google's cloud. It offers developers direct access to Google's scalable storage and networking infrastructure as well as powerful authentication and data sharing mechanisms."

Product Overview - Google Storage for Developers - Google Code

A great piece by Jonathon Snook on flash and html5.

"Flash's downfall, however, has more to do with those wielding its power—the web developers and designers who misuse it—and less to do with the technology itself."

Filling in the Gaps - Snook.ca

Please read this piece about ads on your page, it makes a good point that the ads are part of your brand. And that you should pick them with care, not accept anything a banner farm throws at your site.

Mule Design Studio's Blog: Ads are Content: "The ads you allow on your site are part of your brand."

In my opinion this also is true about the speed you want to give your visitors. Still too many banner farms ( I won't name and shame, but you know how you are. ) and ad agencys don't do anything about speed. Using for instance extremely slow javascript solutions to serve the banners. At one of my clients I tried to convince them to just give us some xml or json and let us place the banners from the link provided by them, but they didn't wanted to do that. Hiding behind tracking the visitor 'cause it was important to them, the continued to worsen the experience we could provide for our visitors.

In fact it was so bad the the load time was multiplied by 5 with banners. FIVE times as long, all because they wanted to track users to better their experience...

"But the Macalope will be surprised if people move away from the iPhone in droves because of a technology that eases the lives of developers instead of users."

(Via The Macalope Weekly

Please check this out, my friend Gerben just uploaded his 5th free font

Find them over here: FontStruct | gspace | FontStructions. To demo one of them, the 'Klonk Narrow' I used fontsquirel to construct me the different webfonts and the css.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

There is no lower case yet, but he is working on it...

Update

And to celebrate all of these design skills, Gerben has just joined us at Front end heroes. Go and check out his profile...