Web Standards, a definition

Macbook Wheel

Too good not to pass. Nice work from The Onion, brought to my attention by Stu.

Blog Awards promo hotel rate

I emailed the Cork International Airport Hotel earlier to see if the promo rate mentioned on the awards site is applicable to online bookings. Here's the response I got from the folk down there, which may/may not be helpful to you:

"The rate available for that function is €55per person sharing or €100 for the single room, including breakfast. The rates available in the internet can be cheaper if you book an internet saver rate, but be aware that is charged immediately, and is NOT REFUNDABLE."

If you want to get in touch with them they're at 021 454 9800, info@corkinternationalairporthotel.com or http://www.corkinternationalairporthotel.com/

On a side note, they seem to have changed their 'Contact' button on the main menu to 'Apartments' - some sweet pads available for those liking a longer stay and some extra space. Looking forward to staying there (the hotel that is :))!

happyMail - email for the elderly

happyMail from Kevin Cannon on Vimeo.

A really interesting project undertaken by Kev & his colleagues at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. You can see & read more about the interface & work leading up to it on his blog.

PopStar Guitar on Engadget

Article here.

SlideShowPro - you hurt my brain

Dear SlideShowPro - is there any way this could be made any easier to customise?

IDI Awards - Winners Lists online

A rather excellent night for all of us in X Communications - Stu Curry managed to bag us Commended, Highly Commended and Design Excellence for 3 different projects, namely McDonalds.ie, NCH.ie and Childline.ie
Full list is online here, photos are to follow. Some fab work on display and winning deserved awards, congrats to all involved!

Tweetdeck usability

Well which is it? How can I tell? Conditional tooltip please :)

Wrap your windows around me

Geeziz.

Fonts, Macs & forgotten PC users

PC:

Mac:

This is a bug/pain I've noticed here and there recently, most recently today on the ICAD site, which is quite a beautiful site when viewed on a Mac, but not so much on PC. Mac-loving designers/developers - spare a thought for us lowly PC users & please make sure you do some testing on a PC.
I sent ICAD a polite email and screenshot explaining I can't really read the website text without bumping up my font size - here's hoping they don't think I'm a total pain in the gizzard (or something a little worse ending in 'hole'). Or maybe I'm as much of a knobhead as the guy who validates other folks HTML? Time will tell.

We Feel Fine - nifty web app

A really beautiful and nifty piece of work - We Feel Fine. Thanks to Mr.Flynn for the link.

IWA - tickets almost gone

Tickets are almost all snapped up for the Irish Web Awards which happen in less than 2 weeks time. Get your ass over there and sign up before it's all too late.

See y'all there!

IE6 - who's still using it?

Every time I run into an annoying, time consuming and downright stupid bug while testing in IE6, I check the W3C's browser stats to see if by some miracle it's usage dropped enough for me to delete it from my PC forever. Today was one of those days and as you can see from the above, around a quarter of internet users are still surfing the information super-highway on IE6. Sadly, this is not enough for me to kick it off the list of browsers I need to test in on a daily basis, in fact, by looking back over previous stats, IE6 usage has dropped by a steady average of 10% per annum, so that would mean I and my fellow web developers are stuck with the fugly beast for about another 2 years.

Chrome and IE8 releases will hopefully catalyse the demise of the thorn in my side further. Until then, we'll just have to keep the stress balls, gum, coffee and whatever other vice gets you through the pain that is king of standards non-compliancy and general stupid behaviour, IE6.

Those stats are here.

SuperExtraBonusPixels

I almost didn't want to fix this it was so fabulous...horray for CSS inheritance :)

A List Apart Survey 2008

That time of the year again, have your tuppence worth:
http://alistapart.com/articles/survey2008

Firefox party anyone?

Dammnit, the one day I didn't bring my super-nerdy specs with me...

http://mozillaparty.com/en-US/events/view/106

jQuery News Ticker

A bit more techy than usual but thought this was worth posting - little news ticker jQuery plugin I just used for a project at work - very basic but it works, unlike many of the others.

Site doesn't look the best but the goods are....good! http://www.texotela.co.uk/code/jquery/newsticker/

HTML Quiz

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Nerdy but nerds will like it. http://www.justsayhi.com/bb/html_quiz via Kev's post on Creative Ireland.