Keep tweaking, keep iterating

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 02 dec 11 and tagged it with About the blog Status

Once again I made some incremental changes to the look of this blog. I’m really not a designer but I will keep pushing those pixels and tweaking the colors, probably for as long as the blog will live. This time I’ve changed the background color slightly, switched the default font and changed the basic font size. Hopefully this will increase the readability on Windows (that totally butched my old font).

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The best thing about the month of X-mas

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 01 dec 11 and tagged it with HTML5/CSS3 Links

Christmas is just a few weeks away. This means all kinds of advent calendars one of which is one of the best things about december; 24 Ways. It is, in their own words

the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.

(My emphasize.)

So what are you waiting for? Visit 24ways.org or add http://feeds.feedburner.com/24ways to you RSS reader right now.

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Animation with CSS Transitions Made Easy « Aza on Design

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 01 dec 11 and tagged it with Code HTML5/CSS3 Links Web Design and Development

This is a good (although old) article on CSS Transitions. Especially the following caught my attention:

You can even add an event listener to detect when the transition has finished:

aLink.addEventListener("transitionend", function(){<br /> console.log("Transition Done!");<br /> }, true);

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aLink.addEventListener("transitionend", function(){<br />
console.log("Transition Done!");<br />
}, true);

I haven’t read anything about this in any of the other bazillion articles about CSS transitions that is out on the web. Sound interesting to me.

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Visar runt @imhtobba i Looplabbet.

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 26 nov 11 and tagged it with snapshots

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Nattsession med inspelning till distansprogrammet.

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 25 nov 11 and tagged it with snapshots

Nattsession med inspelning till distansprogrammet.

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Det gäller att börja pynta i tid.

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 23 nov 11 and tagged it with snapshots

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Windows 8 Metro really impresses me

Henrik Carlsson posted this on 16 nov 11 and tagged it with Microsoft Video Windows

Back in September Microsoft revealed a lot of what Windows 8 will be about. The thing that caught my eye was the new ”Metro UI”. The other day, while on a train from Malmö to Falun, I finally had the time to watch the ”8 Traits of Great Metro Style Apps” video. If you are interested in computers, development etc you should really watch this.

Microsoft has made some great decisions about Metro. The fact that they again and again in the presentation encourages the developers to use standard UI and controls instead of rolling there own is great. Finally Windows might be a platform in the same sense that OS X is, i.e. programs will feel like a natural extension of the system instead of something completely alien.

One thing that I really liked when I first heard of it was the idea of contracts. After seeing the video I like it even more. This seems like the perfect way to get apps to co-operate in the next generation of operating systems. Let’s hope and pray that Apple finds it equally great and steels it for iOS.

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