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Canada Day Closures
Access Winnipeg provides a good list of closures for the 2011 Canada Day holiday. Plan ahead, folks.WoW Free Until 20
"We've removed the previous 10- and 14-day trial time restrictions, and players who are interested in trying out World of Warcraft can now play the base game for free up to a maximum character level of 20, including draenei and blood elf characters - all they need is a Battle.net account and an Internet connection," Blizzard explained in a statement.Google Authorship
Google is highlighting the people creating this content in Google.com search results. Now's a good time to read over the Google Webmaster Tools page about tagging authorship for your webpages.Internet Predictions From 1982
Great find by Jason Kottke, "They got the details wrong but many of the broad strokes were spot on."Evolving The Google Design
A post by Chris Wiggins about the latest update to the Google homepage and the evolving Google experience. Retro bonus, a screenshot of the original homepage circa 1997 :DGoogle+
Google is having another go at social networking with Circles, Sparks, Hangouts, INstant Upload, Huddle, and more. Techcrunch has a good write-up as well as collecting several Youtube video about the project.Daily Links
Happy Tau Day
No, really, pi is wrong. Stop making excuses for pi.Canada Postal Service Resumes
The Canadian government has ordered Canada Post workers back to work. Mail should start arriving today.IMAX Polo Park
The Cineplex IMAX at Silvercity Polo Park officially opens at midnight tonight.Daily Links
Pixar's Official Trailer for Brave
I can't wait. My girls need a hero that is not Hannah Montana.Daily Links
Apple releases WWDC 2011 videos
Apple has released sessions from WWDC 2011 in video format. Those who are involved in any sort of development might find it interesting. An Apple ID is required to access the sessions.Daily Links
WInnipeg <insert team Name> Hockey Site is up
The Winnipeg NHL Hockey Team has their site up but there is still no indication what the team name will beFBI Seizes Servers
Popular sites like Eater, Curb, and Pinboard were affected when the FBI raided DigitalOne's facility and, rather than taking the one or two machines it needed, confiscated three full racks of blade servers.A Handy Grid Calculator
This is handy. Designers - bookmark this link!GitHub for Mac
Announced today, and available for free.Daily Links
Is Internet Access A Human Right?
Michael Geist discusses the United Nations Human Rights Council's new report characterizing internet access as a human right.Happy Summer Solstice
Longest day of the year. Cause for celebration among our ancestors. Cause for worry about what the heck am I going to do with the kids for the next 10 weeks in our contemporary times. Hurray summer!
photo under CC by Milan G at Flickr
Excellbook
Yes, it lets you be sneaky. But if you have to be sneaky like this, there's a good chance you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. After all, it's provided by a site called Be Stupid At Work :)Why Mobile Web Apps Should Stop Trying To Act Like Native Apps
To sum up, let web apps be web apps and native apps be native apps. Trying to make either into the other diminishes the whole result.Password-less Dropbox
Oops! A programmer's error caused a temporary security breach that allowed any password to be used to access any Dropbox user account. O_OFirefox 5
Check your preferred method of updating, folks. Also, developers should take a quick peek at the change notes, just in case ;)Background Image Bug in Internet Explorer 8
I am working on specific styling for a site in Internet Explorer 7 and 8. Our designer has provided a list of styling adjustments that need to be addressed specifically for these browsers. One of the issues we ran across is that the background image tile for the body was glitchy rendering where the background for the body would only appear if we were to resize the window or if we were to hover on the odd item.
I went looking to see if there was a bug or issue specifically for IE8, and sure enough I found several examples described throughout my search. The following CSS code works in WebKit browsers, Mozilla browsers, and Internet Explorer 7:
body { background: #b7b3a4 url("../../img/bg_generic.png") repeat-y center top; }
Sadly, IE8 has a bug that requires the parent element be specific to HTML and not the BODY of the document. Normally we keep to a general rule that the HTML element does not contain any styling. We usually consider it just the container for the rest of the document.
However, in this particular case the fix for the disappearing background tile on the body is to apply that background to the HTML element instead.
html { background: #b7b3a4 url("../../img/bg_generic.png") repeat-y center top; }
It's not a nice fix as the browser should be able to handle this css. However, we apply this particular fix into an ie8hacks stylesheet so that it only applies when the HTML code recognizes the browser. Just a friendly little reminder that you still have to hack a bit for Internet Explorer.