http://www.sprae.com/default.htm A creative's insight and insanity. en http://www.wotzwot.com/rssxl.php http://www.sprae.com/ Thursday, September 14, 2006 Philippe Starck interview in Oct/2006 edition of Metropolitan Home http://www.sprae.com/ Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Lawrence Carvalho & Christian Heilmann article for A List Apart is a gem. http://www.sprae.com/ Friday, August 25, 2006 This means IE7 is 99% complete and ready for release soon. There maybe RC2 or even RC3 but should be officially out end of the year. So designers and developers, download it and start testing all your sites in IE7 now. As well all know the distribution and acceptance of IE7 will be fast XP or Vista. http://www.sprae.com/ Wednesday, August 23, 2006 You have to hand it to Microsoft's IE team. Resolving 200 issues from PNG transparencies support, :hover dynamic pseudo class available for all elements to min/max width supports are good examples of improvements made. I know these should have been in IE6 but its better late than never. Right? http://www.sprae.com/ Wednesday, August 9, 2006 A must read for all designers out there. Michael Beirut's article, one of the best he's written, have outted the design industry as it should be. A bunch of insecure egotistical so-called professionals. Design profession is inconstant defensiveness against all those who critique the real value it provides. Beirut's true answer is this... http://www.sprae.com/ Wednesday, August 9, 2006 First and foremost I am not a fan of Nielsen but certain times in his career as a usability expert he has had given a few gems. This July interview highlights a few good gems. http://www.sprae.com/ Thursday, July 13, 2006 There have been strong growth for Mozilla Firefox since its launch, capturing 16% of the US browser market in a few years in no mean feat. With version 1.5 out of awhile now, Firefox version 2 beta 1 is officially launched. http://www.sprae.com/ Thursday, June 29, 2006 A good article by Sean Fraser on how CSS Reboot Spring 2006 submitted sites are less 30% valid to W3C standards. http://www.sprae.com/ Tuesday, June 20, 2006 I have been using PocketMod is the past three days and I have to say it is refreshing to say the least. It may look like an ordinary mini booklet but so much more. http://www.sprae.com/ Now I have been a fan of Joe Clark ever since attending Web Essentials 2004 which he presented. He is the straightest shooter on web standard if ever there was one. http://www.sprae.com/ Wednesday, May 17, 2006 I must be sleeping under a rock. I have just noticed Vitamin from Carson Systems. Cool new resource for web designers, developers and entrepreneurs. Check it! http://www.sprae.com/ Friday, May 12, 2006 Amazingly frank blog from Chris Wilson, Group Program Manager of the Internet Explorer (IE) Platform team at Microsoft. " Yes, I have the power to enact change. Yes, I will continue to improve standards support and ... http://www.sprae.com/ Tuesday, May 9, 2006 John Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin have evolved Web Essentials to Web Directions. The September 26th - 29th event promises to be bigger and more SXSW for Australia. The conference will focus on; standards based design and ... http://www.sprae.com/ Tuesday, May 9, 2006 There are just too many thing happening on the web and too little time to cover everything notable. So I am blogrolling a lists of interesting links. Testing in both IE 6 and IE 7 - Interesting setup options, but the only ... http://www.sprae.com/ Wednesday, April 26, 2006 Microsoft has released IE Beta 2 yesterday. There are minor changes to the interface and some changes from Beta MIX06. Again I stress that we trial and report bugs back to the IE team. Its for our benefit as much as its ... http://www.sprae.com/ Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Excellent guide by Kevin Hale for designers to prototype AJAX or any new web development projects with web services. Its very difficult for designers to develop concepts for AJAX UI, as most functionality will stay at a ... http://www.sprae.com/ Friday, April 7, 2006 Big up to Mr. Daring Fireball for writing this article. Great anaylsis by Gruber and most of which I am in agreement with what Apple have strategically planned. " But now that it's here, Boot Camp does seem like an obvious ... http://www.sprae.com/ Thursday, April 6, 2006 In the aftermath of Bootcamp beta release, Apple have enable Mac Intel users to freely install and natively run "any" other OS (Windows and Linux) into their Mac. Apple has opened a big can of worms in the OS and PC ... http://www.sprae.com/ Friday, March 31, 2006 For Microsoft at least, it seem to be happening. Dave Shae highlighted this issue on his blog and linked to this eweek news. This is huge for everyone in web development. It is huge because almost every site I know uses some ... http://www.sprae.com/ Monday, March 27, 2006 Since my last post on some of IE7 "Layout Complete" short comings, several web gurus have provided more insights to fixes in the interim. Checkout the latest on the web tracks below (especially Andy Clarke). Web tracks: ... http://www.sprae.com/ Wednesday, March 22, 2006 After the update on IE7 beta to MIX06 version, the IE team have completed all CSS implementation, san updates on bugs and known issues. This current beta version with the version which we will really need to test and work ... http://www.sprae.com/ Thursday, March 16, 2006 If you don't know Bruce Mau, you need to know him and what he has done for design profession. His ideas and impact are social design and the way we interact with it. Here is a good description of Bruce Mau from AIGA. This ... http://www.sprae.com/ Wednesday, March 15, 2006 If you develop Flash and have even the slightest interest in standards-based development or Search Engine Optimisation, you need to check out this article by Geoff Stearns. Personally I am pro-Flash. It is a great platform ...