tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:43:46 +0000keynoiseseedcamppagelayerCSSWeb Design and Web Developmenthttp://xtassin.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)Blogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-4009228949408174161Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:55:00 +00002009-11-06T19:54:49.583+01:00CSSSince Paul Irish's great effort on a bullet proof syntax, I have seen a lot of excitement about @font-face and the long looked after cross browser web fonts.It is taking shape and more people are putting extra thoughts in it to make it reliable, usable and ensure all the craze is not going to turn into a wild usage and broken web pages:So, Paul Irish kicked the ball with a nice CSS declaration http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-on-font-face.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-4424883014010409998Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:09:00 +00002009-10-22T18:18:22.578+02:00CSSI bumped again in this today, but took the time to find some workaround.Someone did that to the main style sheet of the open source portal I am working with:td { background-color: #fff;}Since my application sets background-color on rows (tr), all my tables were white.The workaround should be as easy as:td { background-color: inherit;}But, Internet Explorer is known for explicitly ignoring thehttp://xtassin.blogspot.com/2009/09/background-color-inheritance-in-ie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-7515804016528893208Tue, 12 May 2009 22:35:00 +00002009-05-13T00:44:22.853+02:00pagelayerNot a giant leap but a small step for PageLayer: version 1.0.1 has been released to help current users with a few glitches that bugged them. In the process, I have improved the support for latest browser releases (Firefox 3 and IE8).I am going to spare more time working on the next release as Pagelayer is gaining some attention and I want to make sure it's up to the expectations.I always feel thehttp://xtassin.blogspot.com/2009/05/still-improving.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-4047678074092394790Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:10:00 +00002008-07-09T11:45:40.647+02:00pagelayerIt has been a long time since the last post and PageLayer development has been slowing down as I was busy with more work. Anyway, I found some free time to fix a few glitches and decided to release PageLayer version 1.0. Because it is now stable and in production (limited, but production none the less), I though it was the right time to reach that mark.It was hard work for one year, and I http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2008/07/pagelayer-version-10.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-4824327730214291762Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:29:00 +00002009-11-06T19:58:36.506+01:00pagelayerWith the version 0.4, PageLayer has now reached the production stage!It has been running nicely for a few weeks now on a first official website and feedback is really positive. To make the experience a bit more fun, the end users work on Mac: a few fixes had to be made but it now runs smoothly in Firefox 2.0 or Safari 3, in French with UTF-8 and the PHP back-end.The second production site is to http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2008/02/pagelayer-in-production.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-8447485088310247366Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:20:00 +00002008-03-01T13:50:44.037+01:00pagelayerA new release!Version 0.4 brings in some of the most needed features to make PageLayer a complete production tool.The "link creation" icon now launches a nice new window to create pages, empty or from template, link to a document or just type some url.The "Includes" engine has been completely re-factored too:- A included file can now be updated: changes are immediately visible on very pages that http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2008/02/pagelayer-version-04.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-2733663377808876240Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:36:00 +00002007-12-04T23:43:40.538+01:00pagelayerIt's live: PageLayer version 0.3, with plenty of new features and improvements:Integrated history: to Undo/Redo any changesImproved user experience (Drag & Drop, Resizing, Text Editor, Image Editor)Improved readability with new color scheme, new UI skin and iconsNew building blocks, more simple yet robust and usefulUser interface feedback through color codes in the Tool barImproved stability, http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2007/12/pagelayer-03.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-3203746576890734233Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:03:00 +00002007-12-04T23:49:07.637+01:00CSSpagelayerduring the stressful process of testing and finalizing version 0.3 of PageLayer I suddenly ran into the Internet Explorer bug of death! During a block "drag and drop", the browser happened to crash violently, randomly and with no more explanation than the terrible "Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close..." message and an obscure reference to MSHTML.DLLThis is probably http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2007/12/width-100-float-left-and-crash.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-2192991742061924267Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:13:00 +00002007-11-07T11:30:40.471+01:00CSSI ran into this problem while trying to make the PageLayer toolbar to behave properly.The toolbar is a collection of float left divs containers (toolsets) embedding other float left divs (buttons / links). In a way, it has an onion skin structure: floats inside floats inside ... floats.The problem is, as you can see in the screenshot, about priority: Firefox makes the outer divs wrap first (what http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2007/10/floats-wrapping-priority-internet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-5840824453984046825Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:54:00 +00002007-10-05T12:01:07.061+02:00pagelayerHere is a short video demonstration of the image crop/resize feature in PageLayer. That sort of manipulation usually requires an extra software as Photoshop to get the image right before integrating to the webpage. In PageLayer all of this is done inline, directly in the web page. Have a look at the video and go have a try with the demo at http://www.pagelayer.comNote: sorry for the french accenthttp://xtassin.blogspot.com/2007/10/pagelayers-inline-image-editor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-8923794303731699380Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:42:00 +00002007-08-29T14:50:41.291+02:00pagelayerI have been working in the web industry for the last 10 years and ran into the same problems, over and over with poorly served solutions. So last year, when the opportunity arose, I decided to try and harness one of the major issue in web development, the holly grail of the web designer and developer: the ultimate WYSIWYG editor.The Web started static, with editing tools like FrontPage or http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2007/08/web-editing-and-content-management.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-3894966718137693045Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:19:00 +00002007-08-29T14:28:25.546+02:00seedcamppagelayerIt's been a busy week for me. Very tense too, waiting for the Seedcamp judges answer. Sadly I did not make it to the short list.I expected failure for a few reasons:- the lack of a team: I am currently working alone.- a business plan that does not match the 2.0 social trend?- revenues expectations a little low, maybe, for venture capitalists- strong competitors (Google?)- a too old founder: I am http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2007/08/sadcamp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-2363251890270987669Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:58:00 +00002007-08-29T20:34:35.192+02:00seedcampwww.friendsclear.com has applied to Seedcamp. Another promising French start-up is taking the challenge to just become big. It's not that I am being patriotic, but I am so glad to see French people getting over the usual and traditional fear of success - or failure. France (and Europe to be fair and less patriotic) has a lot of very talented people with the will to succeed. It is now notorious http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2007/08/p2p-money-loan-in-france.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-752964484085593618Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:56:00 +00002007-08-15T23:25:38.168+02:00seedcampThe guys at Upshot are making a lot of noise about their application to Seedcamp. I am glad to see some frenchies fighting their way up to the start-ups nirvana.The Upshot website does not tell much about the product but that's what start-ups are all about, right? Anyway, their idea looks good and as they say: "Upshot in London, it's cool"I am expecting some more participants to have their say http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2007/08/go-france.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-3076370573154402827Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:33:00 +00002007-08-15T23:27:43.046+02:00seedcampHere we go. I applied to Seedcamp and I am now fingers crossed waiting for an answer.The rules were strict but they said "it's OK to break the rules", so I did. If ever I get selected, I will probably end up being the older guy around, and certainly the only one alone. Lacking what is expected to be a "solid core team" is my biggest disadvantage and what makes me a "not so good match" for what http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2007/08/applied.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-572920520965941348Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:32:00 +00002007-08-15T23:29:13.380+02:00seedcampA lot of people have been waiting for it. It now happens.Saul Klein started it last year with TAG, now launching the most American-like platform in Europe to help, promote and fund young entrepreneurs.Seedcamp takes inspiration from the know famous Paul Graham's YCombinator offering what is painfully lacking here on the old continent: an attraction pole for daring young developers to gain http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2007/07/seedcamp-europe-on-move.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-613907047998233905Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:03:00 +00002007-08-14T21:31:40.590+02:00keynoiseThe peak in the Sportstar Simulator's stats did not stay for long. I still do not know what was the cause of this. Anyway, the game is still doing between 500 and 1000 hits a month and I am happy with that.I, sometimes, receive an email from a visitor asking about the next version/improvement/bug fix and I try to do my best to make them happy. But I guess the simulator is now going to stay as it http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2007/07/and-back-to-ground.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-7389882358738868558Sat, 09 Jun 2007 13:19:00 +00002007-08-17T17:50:23.392+02:00keynoiseI do not know what happened. The Sportstar Simulator has been online for almost 2 years now, but it never exceeded the 500 hits a month. I checked my stats today and .. and last week ... on Tuesday ... over 3,000 people went to play my little simulator. My web hosting provider must be wondering where have gone all these 2 Gigs of data. I am glad that somebody found it fun enough to post a link http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2007/06/reaching-sky.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-114702426400671841Sun, 07 May 2006 17:35:00 +00002008-03-01T13:48:16.562+01:00 I made a great discovery today. I own a Philips ToUCam basic web cam. What is great about it is that you can fully unscrew the focus lens. It gives a very short focus distance and, if you hands don't shake, you can do some nice close-up photos. The resolution is not that great (640x480) and the depth of field a little short, but results are quite interesting.This is a ballpoint pen ... with one http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2006/05/macro-photography-with-web-cam.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-113516573218884057Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:17:00 +00002007-08-17T17:49:49.794+02:00keynoiseIt's official now. The Sportstar Simulator won in the Simulation category.The Golden Polygon has been created to promote online 3D applications. Since web based 3D programs have been around for a while and never received the attention they might have, it is nice to see that there is some very good stuff done with several technologies.The Sportstar Simulator is not the ground breaking software http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2005/12/keynoise-wins-golden-polygon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-112902800352735953Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:48:00 +00002007-08-14T21:32:41.852+02:00keynoiseThe New version I (and may be you) was waiting for, for 3 years (huh).Take a look at the Sportstar Simulator, I'm quite proud of it ;)http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2005/10/keynoise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623068.post-112245172897324970Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:00:00 +00002005-08-22T17:04:08.853+02:00Last interesting step in the restless fight between Google and Yahoo.To celebrated the anniversary of the first manned mission to the Moon, Google Maps provides a view of the area where Apollo missions have landed.100% zoom gives a good idea of the technical power of google.http://moon.google.com/http://xtassin.blogspot.com/2005/07/google-aims-for-moon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Xavier Tassin)0