Fritz Thomas

I have just updated my Blog a bit. Actually i updated just some CSS but i hope it has more contrast now.

You may know the CSS declarations text-align and vertical-align. Perhaps you tried alredy to vertically align inline span elements within a div block element but did not succeed yet. I will try explain how to achieve this with a simple button example.
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Many of you may already know this sites. But one more link can not be that bad.
If you are searching for a list of CSS Attributes and their compatibility in the major browsers with examples, demos, hacks or workarounds to get it working Cross Browser wide take a look at http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html and http://de.selfhtml.org/navigation/syntax.htm#css (only in [...]

Yesterday Zend Framework 1.7.5 was released with the normal enhancements and bug fixes. There is also an update to Zend_View which breaks Backwards Compatibility due an Security Issue. Read more on this on Matthews Blog.
It is available for download as usual on http://zendframework.com/download/latest.

Do you ever wanted to know which features of HTML5, SVG or CSS3 are implemented in which browsers, or when they are going to implemenet it?
Thats what you can see in the compatibility tables on “When can i use” .

Mozilla released a new Labs project which shows what can be done with HTML5. It uses only Web Technologys – No Flash. I write this because it might look like Flash in the video.
Bespin is not another richt text editor. It is a fully integrated development environment usable right in your browser. Like the title [...]

“Is this real life?”, “I can’t see anything…”, “I feel funny….” –> So funny!

Designing Web Interfaces Book – O’Reilly Webcast
View more presentations from Bill Scott. (tags: rich ajax)

There is also a Web Site about the new book: http://designingwebinterfaces.com with a little comparison of the essential controls needed in an web application and which JS Librarys have implemented it so far and how.

The first annual ExtJS Conference was announced and takes place in Orlando, Florida from 14th to 16th April 2009. There is also a release party of the new ExtJS 3.0 release.

Have you ever needed the absolute path of the shell script within this script? I do not mean the current working dir (pwd). That is different, because you do not know from which path the bash script is called.

In my case i needed the absolute path, because i wanted to call another script, which is [...]