Getting spammed by @nickf.
WebKit now includes support for gradients specified in CSS. The syntax looks a bit confusing for us designerly types, but massive kudos to the WebKit team for continuing to embrace the “browser wars” mentality, offering exciting new toys for designers and developers to play with, while at the same time maintaing interoperability with other browsers. Now, if we could just get Opera, Mozilla, and Microsoft on board, we’d probably see some fast and furious innovation in the CSS arena. Visit site »
I’ve had this one in my “to watch later” pile for several weeks, and I finally got around to it last night. Cabel’s one of the more entertaining speakers I’ve ever head the pleasure of seeing in person, and this talk about the development of Coda certainly lives up to that. He’s insightful, funny, and interesting. Check it out. In my opinion, Panic is still synonymous with great Mac software — even as I was never the target market for Coda and Expan drive has largely made Transmit unnecessary for me. Visit site »
Phil Thompson has a nice writeup on the Blue Flavor redesign where he questions the decisions to leave the company name out of the logo treatment, as well as the lack of a mini-description of what it is we do on the homepage. These are very valid points, but I think he’s justifies these design decisions himself when he says:
There is also the possibility that the due to (some of) Blue Flavou’s [sic] staff’s industry profiles, their core clients could be very clued-up on what they do and therefore don’t need it spelled out.
This is definitely true. Probably 95% of our work comes from clients who already know who we are and what we do, and already have a good impression of us based on reputation. These clients tend to be the ones we like working for the best, too; they respect us from the start, so they’re more likely to give us more creative freedom. So, in the end, I don’t think these decisions will hurt us. But, Phil is totally in the right to question them, as the same decision definitely wouldn’t work for every agency. Visit site »