Membranophonist's Ramblings

Interaction and interface design, technology, politics, music, and random thoughts…

July 24, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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In A Silent Way

The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions is great as music and as a way of seeing the direction that so many of the musicians involved in the recordings would go on their own. The early sounds of Weather Report …

July 15, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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IE6 and JavaScript

Just when you think you have a problem solved (pop-up window navigation), IE6 comes along and screws it up.

<a href=javascript: history.back()">Back</a>

Does not seem to want to work. At all. Regardless of syntax.

As for why, it would appear …

July 13, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Cursives! Foiled again

The installation of Safari (version 1.0) on my iMac does not render the text beneath my weblog title in the system cursive font, as specified by my CSS. This is somewhat ironic as my iMac is the machine my weblog …

July 12, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Unsupported CSS in Safari 1.0

It appears that Safari does not support the text-decoration property within a span that is set to display: none until hovered (on which it is set to display: block, a la Eric Meyer’s css/edge).

I’ll post the files which revealed …

July 9, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Will it be worth it?

I’m considering purchasing an iSight from Apple using some of the proceeds from both a web coding project and temping. It would be helpful for remote collaboration on web work (my brother lives in the boonies). The reviews I’ve …

July 1, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Early ’70s Herbie

I am currently digging Herbie Hancock’s “Mwandishi” and “Crossings” albums. Very interesting.…