As a result of Opera’s antitrust complaint against Microsoft, I started thinking about how Microsoft might allow a selection of web browsers for Windows.
Then, I made this mockup image:
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DS Browser image sizes
Recently I’ve been playing around with the Nintendo DS web browser. One of my discoveries was that it automatically resizes any image beyond a certain width (768px), height (768px), or dimension (307200 sq. px).
To show the actual image sizes this allows, I’ve created this handy SVG file. Easy numbers to remember are displayed, though anything that does not extend the curved line at the bottom right will work too. Additionally, this page shows all numerical options.
How is this useful? Well, the resizing isn’t too big a deal for most photographs, but if you have larger images with text on them (comics for example), they will look pretty ugly and become hard if not impossible to read. So if you care at all about your DS browsing public, you can use this information to keep your images within these limits.
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Where are the decent Wii games?
I like to play games. Don’t play much, don’t own many consoles. I do own a Wii. The Wii seemed very cool and exciting at first, and certainly has some cool games for it. I do not regret buying a Wii.
However. What disappoints me is that there are so few decent Wii games, especially compared to the Xbox 360 and PS3. And yet it’s the best-selling console of this generation. Let me give you some statistics from Metacritic, a site that takes scores on games from a variety of review sites, and then mashes them together into a single number.
Here’s a demo of a div with a simple 10px radius 1px border that works in Opera 9.5, Firefox 2+ and Safari 3 beta. It uses -moz-border-radius for Firefox, -webkit-border-radius for Safari and an SVG background for Opera 9.5. The SVG file this time is actually a modified version of a new method Holger Will came up with.
Of course, it doesn’t work quite that easily. The CSS3 corner method uses a border, but for Opera we don’t want that border to appear because it already exists in the SVG file. Additionally, we’ll have to change the position and padding slightly so the border appears in the exact same place.