Opera 8.50 kostenlos erhältlich

Opera stellt seinen Browser ab heutigem Datum mit der neuen Versionsnummer 8.50 kostenlos ohne Einschränkungen zur Verfügung.
Die Bindung an Werbeeinschaltungen oder benutzerspezifische Google-Ads hat mich im Jahr 2001, als bereits der IE den Markt dominierte und das Interesse an Webstandards allgemein recht gering war – neben dem Punkt der nicht überzeugenden Unterstützung von (damals) neuen CSS-Features – davon abgehalten Opera Weiterlesen

User Experience: Message Boxes in Brushed

A few days ago I came across this bug in bugzilla. Kevin Gerich has changed the Fx default theme’s so-called alert icons:
Alert icons for Fx default-theme Winstripe, source: bugzilla

New alert icons for Winstripe (Deer Park)

From Comment #03 on this thread is getting really interesting. Dean Tessman provides a link to an MSDN-article, where the usage of Message Box Types and their graphical symbols are pointed out.
According to it, the usage of the question mark message symbol is not recommended (any longer): Weiterlesen

Donate – if you’ve got resources and like my work

Many of you folks out there have asked me for a matching port of Brushed for Thunderbird. Let me shortly explain my point of view.
It’s quite clear to me that many people will laugh out loudly when they are asked to give away money for a program’s theme as there are that many who offer such things for nothing. So do I.
But you have to look a bit closer… Weiterlesen