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Linux for Designers

a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "HTML"

Kompozer 0.8 Beta

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While it seem that the BlueGriffon WYSIWYG Webeditor project is dead, the Kompozer project is still alive and kicking. After the 4th alpha, now a first beta of Kompozer 0.8 is availabe for download.

New in 0.8 beta are:
* FTP support
* Syntax highlighting in split view
* Ability to edit text files
* Better PHP support on GNU/Linux
* New icon UUID

A lot of localisations for Kompozer 0.8 are available too.

UPDATE
The 0.8 beta of Kompozer is available as a deb package on GetDeb.net.

Nice new Interface of Firefox 4.0

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A first view of possible interface changes of Firefox 4 are available. May they look very simliar to Safari 4 and Opera 10 but i really like these first steps:

I do not know why they choose the ugly Vista screen first but may there is the userbase of the future.

Kompozer 0.8 Alpha 4

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While there are no news updates since January of the BlueGriffon WYSIWYG Webeditor project, the Kompozer project is still alive and kicking. A 4th alpha (which runs pretty stable) of Kompozer 0.8 is availabe for download. Kompozer 0.8 is focused on a new Mozilla core and the new UI displays more relevant information about the current HTML element: DOM tree, style properties, HTML code.
A lot of localisations for Kompozer 0.8 are available too.

How to get Kompozer 0.8 running:
* Make sure the package "xulrunner" is installed
* Download the Kompozer 0.8 binaries for Linux
* Extract the archive as root in "/opt/kompozer"
* Now create a new starter at your Gnome main menu or panel with command:
    "/opt/kompozer/kompozer".

BlueGriffon - NG WYSIWYG Web Editor

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End of last year i wrote a post about BlueGriffon a new WYSIWYG web editor and a successor of Kompozer and NVU.
Meanwhile the development goes on and BlueGriffon offers more CSS support, a project manager and a template manager. Besides that builds for Ubuntu are available too.

IE Death March

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"Internet Explorer 6 will be SEVEN years old on August 27th. It came out a few weeks before the Twin Towers fell. It came out before the Nintendo GameCube. It came out before the first iPod." Dave Auayan is right with his initiative "IE Death March". Enough is enough! Please stop using Internet Explorer 6! May update to Internet Explorer 7 or use alternatives like Firefox or Opera.

IE 8 Development Slowness

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After end of August Microsoft barely offers the secound beta of the Internet Explorer 8 now they answered to the question about "What’s After Beta 2". The answer is "We will release one more public update of IE8 in the first quarter of 2009". Wow thats really slow! I believe at this time we will have Firefox 3.1, Opera 9.7 (may with a better GUI) and a much improved Webkit/ Safari (and IE 8 is just another beta or RC).
What will be available when IE 8 reaching the final state?

BlueGriffon - The next-generation WYSIWYG Web Editor

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A while NVU and the unofficial further development branch Kompozer seems to be the only real WYSIWYG web editors on Linux. With BlueGriffon the company Disruptive Innovations (a W3C member too) brings fresh blood into this area. Disruptive Innovations are the developers of the older NVU too. Against the older WYSIWYG web editors BlueGriffon is based on Firefox. At the moment it is only available via SVN or as nightly for Windows.

Typography on the Web again

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Besides Sifr, which is based an JavaScript and Flash, a new method embeding custom on websites poped up: typeface.js. Basically this method rendering text with Javascript, <canvas> and SVG/ VML. Check out the examples too. The bad thing about this method is that you can't select and copy text in a easy way :frown:
Myslef dreaming about the upcoming @font-face support included in Firefox 3.1 (and still available in Opera or Webkit (Safari)). May M$ get it ready in IE8 too.




Grabbing Websites

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For a customer of area42 that can't renember about a password for an old server that shut turned off i have to grab the old website as an backup. I renembered in earlier days on Windows i used WinHTTrack and i renembered too that HTTrack is as a commandline tool available for Linux.
So i was lloking for a GUI and get it as gHTTrack (grab a Deb package for Ubuntu here).
Ok, the interface of gHTTrack isn't quite nice but it did its job well :smile: You can try the web-based WebHTTrack frontend too. It seems the Spiderzilla addon for Firefox is dead :frown:

Firefox 3.1 beta is coming

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For me one of the best features of the upcoming Firefox 3.1 is the support for @font-face. This will bring real typos into the web and let web designers create more cool sites. So now we have @font-face support in Webkit (Safari), Gecko (Firefox) and Opera. That's great!
All about the new features of Firefox 3.1 can be found at the Mozilla Developer Center.

Browser War

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After we getting the Beta2 of the Internet Explorer 8 and Googles Chrome Beta now the fight about the fastes browser is opened again. This Time it is now about rendering HTML, this time it is all about JavaScript. 2 Day's Chrome take the throne of speed but the new build of Firefox 3.1 with TracMonkey is very close. Check out that stats:
http://scr3.golem.de/?d=0809/Firefox_TraceMonkey&a=62200

Some older performance tests:
http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-performance-rundown/
http://scr3.golem.de/?d=0809/Google_Chrome&a=62163

Ok you notice the difference between 17866ms of the IE 7 and 1209 of Google Chrome, but can you notice the difference of 200ms? In fact that Google collects so many data, i didn't like the vision that Google collect any step i make at the web.

Gimp CSSdev 0.5

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After posting a little sneak peak of CSSdev, now i uploaded the final. If you using Gimp 2.5.x you will love this release:
* Now text layers will be exported with additional css styles and it's content
(Gimp 2.5.x is required)
* Layer could now automaticly coped to their content on export
* all changes of CSSdev during the export are grouped to on und step
* Added support for Redhat's Liberation Fonts



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Firebug Lite 1.2 for any Browser

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Firebug is, besides Web Developer, one of the best extensions for web development on Firefox. A week ago Firebug raised from the death and this week another beta update of the 1.2 brunch shipped. A lot of potentials developers formed now the Firebug Working Group. They got a new member too: Azer Koçulu.
Azer Koçulu is the developer of the JavaScript tool pi.debugger. He startet now bringing Firebug to The Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera. This port called Firebug Lite and is now available for download.

Web Form Design Patterns

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The Smashing Magazine wrotes two interesting articles about Web Form Design Patterns:
Sign-Up Forms Part 1
Sign-Up Forms Part 2

There is an older article about creative web forms design too.

Updated CSS font matching list

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I updated my Linux-Mac-Windows CSS font matching list to support Redhat's Liberation fonts. Now i have to add this to CSSdev for Gimp too.

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OpenLaszlo 4.1 with AJAX/ DHTML support

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OpenLaszlo a premier open-source platform for rich internet applications is released as version 4.1. This version brings new features like:
* full support for DHTML/Ajax
* Preliminary support for SWF9 is included
* Over 800 bug fixes
* Significantly improved documentation suite
More about this release can be found in the release announcement of the Open Laszlo Blog.

Browsers, Browsers, Browsers

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CSS font matching with Vista

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Looking around the web about an update for my Linux-Mac-Windows CSS font matching list i found the interesting post "Are Vista Fonts Ready for the Web?". Windows Vista shipped with new screen optimized fonts that are only available there and it seems at the moment there aren't equal fonts on the other platforms available.

CSSdev 0.5 sneak

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Whoo-hoo Gimp 2.5.1 rocks and is a real good graphical source for CSSdev. Here is a little sneak preview of the layered image in Gimp 2.5.1 and the output off CSSdev 0.5 (just CSS and XHTML, noch graphics, no joke, no recoding after):

Those haven't Gimp 2.5.x running yet grab a Debian/ Ubuntu Deb archive of Gimp 2.5.0 or Gimp 2.5.1 now.

CSSdev for Gimp 0.4 update

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I'm on it to make the first version of CSSdev really feature rich in its basic features. In 0.4 i added support for font style and font weight for the default font (and later it can be used for text layers too).

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