Finally the Chicken Fortress is complete! The girls slept in their coop for the first time the night before last, up until then we put ’em in a bin and brought them in. I’ve delayed putting up any pics until it was in fully operational.
png8alpha is a droplet app that converts 24bit pngs to 8bit pngs with transparency intact. These images render normally in modern browsers and IE6 treats them like gifs. Graceful degradation for pngs! UPDATE: The latest build is png8alpha-02 (notes) Usage Drag and drop a 24bit PNG image onto the application and it will be reduced to 256 colors. Transparency will be tweaked to achieve the desired effect. The original PNG will be…
Pixels are great, consistent and easy to understand. Explorer can’t scale them though. This means if older people or those with large displays want to increase the font size they’re stuck. This is somewhat less relevant for Explorer 7 with its zoom feature. Maybe when IE6 has dwindled away I’ll switch. In the meantime… I love to make layouts that scale with the font size. To do this I set a base…
