Some whine about movies on Flickr, others about the switch to Yahoo IDs, I simply want better rendering of transparent PNGs as JPGs.
CSS Transparency Settings for All Browsers
| ``` .transparent_class { opacity: 0.5; /* the standards compliant attribute that all browsers should recognize, but... */ filter:alpha(opacity=50); /* for IE */ -khtml-opacity: 0.5; /* for old Safari (1.x) */ -moz-opacity:0.5; /* for old skool Netscape Navigator */ } ``` |
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The Future Of Privacy and Libraries
Ryan Eby speaks with tongue firmly in cheek in this blog post, but his point is well taken. Privacy is serious to us, but we nonetheless make decisions that trade bits of our patrons’ privacy as an operational cost. While we argue about the appropriate time keep backups of our circulation records, we largely accept […] » about 500 words
Organizational/Institutional Blogging Done Right
Jenny Levine is talking about an example of The Perfect Library Blog over at The Shifted Librarian.
The posts are written in the first person and in a conversational tone, with the author’s first name to help stress the people in the library. The staff isn’t afraid to note problems with the new catalog, the web site, or anything else. Full transparency — nice. You can feel the level of trust building online. They respond to every comment that needs it, whether it’s a criticism, question, or suggestion. And some of the comments are fantastic. Users are even helping debug the new catalog.
Jenny quotes some examples, go look.
Damn PNGs in Internet Explorer
I don’t know why IE has never displayed my transparent PNGs correctly, but I know now that I’m not the only one with this complaint. Bob Osola (name?) shares my frustration, and better, he sat down and coded a solution, shared the code, and posted a wonderfully informative guide to the problem.
Not sure if your browser can display transparent PNGs properly? Follow that link for examples.