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Linux for Designers

a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "css"

Web developer tool for Opera: Dragonfly

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After Firefox has a lot of extensions for web development like ySlow, Web Developer, Firebug and the Internet Explorer has IEpro, Developer Toolbar and the Web Accessibility Toolbar now Opera brings Dragonfly to the front. An addon for web developers using the Opera browser. Since a while a Opera Web Developer toolbar made by the community members is available too, of course Dragonfly will add more features.

Homer Simpson built in CSS

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Roman Cortes has built a graphic of Homer Simpson based on normal text elements and CSS. At the moment the server page is not answering so try the cached page of Google.

Powerfull web development with Eclipse

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If you like to use Eclipse for web development you should definetly try out Aptana Studio Community Edition. Aptana Studio Community Edition is really amazing and adds so much nice and cool features to Eclipse:
* A normal file tree
* FTP support
* AJAX development
* Validation
* Help and references
* additional plugins for Ruby, Adobe AIR and Php
A howto to add Aptana to your existing Eclipse is available too.
If you haven't Eclipse installed yet take as a base the Php Developer Tools (PDT).

CSS font matching: Windows, Mac and Linux

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I found several posts about font comparsion for web development and cascading stylesheets. But most are incomplete or didn't compare all three major systems Linux, MacOS X and Windows.
Based on my own experience and a list of websites (Linux font equivalents, Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 font list, MacOS X Safari, iPhone fonts and Microsoft products and fonts) i created my own list.
Most users have Windows installed and Microsoft has once startet a webfont project. So i use typical Windows fonts as the base of my list. Another rule of the selection was that the alternative font faces didn't have a larger width then the the original has:
* Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif
* "Courier New",Courier,FreeMono,"Nimbus Mono L",monospace
* Georgia,"Bitstream Charter","Century Schoolbook L",Times,serif
* "Lucida Sans","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande",Lucida,sans-serif
* "Lucida Console",Monaco,"DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono",monospace
* Palatino,"Palatino Linotype",Palladio,"URW Palladio L","Book Antiqua",Times,serif
* Tahoma,Geneva,"DejaVu Sans Condensed",sans-serif
* "Times New Roman",Times,"Nimbus Roman No9 L","FreeSerif",serif
* Verdana,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans",Geneva,sans-serif

Some newer Vista fonts are still uncompared. An update will follow soon :wink:

KompoZer 0.7.10

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KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management, easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing and it is the unofficial bugfix release of NVU.
The new version ships with a new icon, some code cleanup and lots of improvements on the CSS editor.
Get a deb archive here.