In a case that brings back a feeling of dread in my gut similarly to the judge fancy-pants fiasco, a large law firm has successfully shut down a small start-up who simply posted some run of the mill hypertext links. The lawsuit stated that the start-up was committing trademark infringement. Subsequently, I have infringed five [...]
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The title of this post says it all, but I’ll explain further. I was doing dishes while Naomi was struggle to find some plastic food containers to put our lunches in. She continued searching, all-the-while complaining that we had too many miss-matched pieces, and that was when it struck me. She makes the same exact [...]
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Good old Quirks Mode. It’s like an undead being slumbering in a forgotten sarcophagus waiting for some unsuspecting designer to stumble upon it. A few weeks or so ago, I began a UI project that, over the years, was designed for Internet Explorer’s Quirks Mode rendering engine. I hadn’t worked on markup for Quirks Mode [...]
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