A bit of technology

There's a post with the same title on OSNews discussing HTML + JS + CSS performance versus Flash 10.1 beta. Khm... I find strange that people think that HTML5 is somehow a magic performance booster!

The problem with Flash about performance is not Flash in itself, but lame "web-masters" who create buggy resource hungry banners, flooding all of da intarwebz with them and bringing our PCs down on their knees. And HTML5 will not fix that in any way. The only global solution to performance issues all over the web is to build big ovens all over the world and burn brain-damaged web-devs alive.

Ever wondered how to create ferrofluid? If so read on Popular Science article! Why to do-it-yourself? Well, because buying it costs about $150 per liter!

Just found an article with funny title on Smashing Magazine and it is called Why Web Developers Don’t Need A Mac (: Actually this one is not so about Mac vs PC, instead it is focused on software which will be useful for webdevelopers and which is available for Windows platform only. The fight starts only at the end of article (:

I'm writting a lot about web-development lately (: So, once again I will write about good tool for web-dev... Khm... Web-designers this time, actually (: And not only for web-designers, but many graphic artists collaborating with each other and/or their clients.

The Commentor is a collaboration tool meant to connect designers, photographers, other visual artists and their clients. The main feature is advanced commenting on graphical images, so basically team can mark problematic spots right on image. Sometimes it is very hard to understand what that big fat rich guy wants from you. The Commentor gives him a tool to mark that left corner on the right bottom side of topmost button and leave a comment. Now you understand what he is talking about (: A must-have tool for freelancers!

P.S. By the way, don't be scared by word "trial" on site - most of functionality is free!

If you ever tried to use non-standard fonts in your web-design, then you know the problem - these font just does not work. Yep, there are several solutions: web fonts are IE only, sIFR requres Flash to be installed on user's PC and so on. But recently I have found a new JavaScript only solution called Cufón. It uses Canvas/SVG/VML depending on which browser is used to render text. Enjoy!