links for 2011-08-04

2011年8月4日 著

• The future of CSS layouts | Feature | .net magazine
  "FlexBox and Columns aside, it's still not definite which new layout modules will be fully implemented cross-browser. I'd say that Positioned Floats and Exclusions are very similar, and could easily be merged (indeed, this seems to be happening). Grid Layout has subsumed Template Layout, and will definitely be in IE10. Regions has already been implemented in a fork of WebKit, so could appear in WebKit browsers (Safari, Chrome, etc) very quickly."
  (tags: css)
• Screen reader support for abbr and span on mobile | ? Henny Swan's blog
  "If looking for a?solution?that works seamlessly across desktop and mobile browsers it looks like <abbr> and <span> is not it. What works best for screen readers on desktop browsers is <span> however this seems to have the worst support on mobile."
  (tags: mobile html)
• isolani - Web Standards: The Web Development Discipline
  "If you leave IE6 testing and fixing to the end of your project, you have no-one else to blame for the pain but yourself. This is part of your job as a web developer, do it properly and to the best of your ability."
  (tags: ie browser webdev)
• Google Chrome Blog: Instant Pages on Google Chrome
  "Today, we’re happy to let you know that Instant Pages is on by default in the latest stable version of Chrome. This means that sometimes when you click a Google search result in Chrome, the page will appear to load much faster than before."
  (tags: chrome)
• TotalTerminal is a system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key
  "TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app. It provides persistent Visor Window which slides down when you press a hot-key."
  (tags: mac apps utility)
• Serial Serveur ? Lion DiskMaker (US)
  "Lion Disk Maker is a small application programmed with AppleScript that you can use with Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.7 to burn a DVD or build a bootable USB key from Mac OS X Lion’s Installation programm."
  (tags: mac apps utility)
• Southampton University Human Powered Aircraft
  "The human powered aircraft team at the University of Southampton has been assembled to celebrate the success of former students fifty years ago, where they managed to build and successfully fly SUMPAC."
  (tags: hpa)