Web Grab Bag

posted January 13, 2012 #

  • Perfect Full Page CSS Backgrounds - previously this has been possible from a number of tricks; CSS markup workarounds or Javascript implemenation. Turns out there's a forthcoming CSS3 standard for "background-size" that covers the requirement. Exciting.
  • The Google-Kenya ripoff - pretty fascinating story about some potentially underhanded tactics being deployed by Google's GKBO project. Was it intentional fraud or just some in-depth indexing?
  • Tim O'Reilly: Why I'm Fighting SOPA - unsurprisingly, the tech book publisher is against the SOPA initiative. I wonder if the fact that the author of the bill is a copyright violator himself will carry any water in dooming the bill? Probably not but it helps that more and more folks like O'Reilly speak out against it.

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