OK, this is technically not a book review. I just went through the 'who should buy this book" section on the micro-site for this new book by Eric Myers, and I'm quite certain this looks like a must have book. This is what set me up...
“If asked, you would describe your HTML skill level as "intermediate" or "expert" and your CSS skill level as "basic" or "intermediate." In other words, you understand HTML fairly well and have used enough CSS to have a basic grasp of how it's written.”
While, I would classify myself as expert/intermediate (HTML/CSS), I was still not sure if this is the advanced book on CSS that I was looking for. But a visit to the 'projects' section convinced me. I'm buying this right now...
According to this New York Times report:
“As three dozen bloggers head to the Democratic convention, political blogs have been ablaze over officially covering conventions for the first time.”
It's good to the see bloggers recognized, but some observers are uneasy with how the definition of journalism is being expanded. I personally think we will see a de-centralization of media as we know it, and this of course will be followed by another conglomeration. It will be interesting to look at the media picture a couple of decades from now and see the impacts of technology on it...
Good to see RIAs getting some focus in the CHI community. If you're in the Bay Area around Aug. 10th this should be an interesting discussion to attend. And looks like Rashmi is chairing this panel...
I've been using Google's Gmail for about a week now (thanks Abdul) and it's amazingly fast in all that it does.
Now, today I turned on the Keyboard Shortcuts feature and noticed that the shortcuts are non-quasimode. In plain English, it means that you need not press any modifier keys like 'Alt' or 'Ctrl' to access the shortcuts.
This means there is a greater chance of errors happening in while trying to type into, say the URL box, while it is not in focus. Google of course has disabled the shortcuts in the compose or data entry mode, but wouldn't a quasimodal shortcut make it possible for the shortcut to be operational even in the compose mode?
But that said, non-quasimodal shortcuts are much faster to use...
