Description vs. person. defective yeti on match.com discrepancies. Well summed up.

Tables suck. Depending on the context, of course. The topic came up on one of our internal mailing lists, and Chris answered with a link to Why tables for layout is stupid, which is a really nice URL to hand out the next time the issue is raised. Great artwork, too! Go luck.

Blog nirvana. Valleywag came up with an interesting heatmap. Reminds me of Lem’s ‘Rough guide to the state of the Internet, circa 2006’.

Heute: Webdesigner:

Ein Kunde von mir sucht aktuell für ein größeres Projekt 1-2 Webdesigner(innen), der/die die nächsten 2 Monate Zeit haben und vor Ort (in München) arbeiten können. Gesuchtes Profil:

• Sehr gute Designkenntnisse, v.a. in Bezug auf Websites;
• Sehr gute Kenntnisse der gängigen Tools (Photoshop, Flash etc.);
• Sehr gute Kenntnisse der in der Webentwicklung angewandten Techniken und Technologien (speziell HTML, CSS, XML und JavaScript);
• Sehr gute Kenntnisse von ActionScript;
• Selbständige und kreative Arbeitsweise;
• Das Projekt bewegt sich im Computer- und Videospiele-Bereich; Erfahrung mit der dort üblichen Bildsprache wären von Vorteil.

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Technorati WTF. Technorati launches their WTFsystem. I see the possibility of serious abuse, but we’ll see whether I am too paranoid. Anyways, the short summary:

Know something that’s hot? Explain why! This is your opportunity to write a quick explanation for the buzz around a popular subject. No blog required!

getElementsByClassName() in Firefox 3. Native, built-in! Because John said so.

Get your URLs straight. A good explanation why everyone should be using disambiguated URLs by (of course) Mr. Willison. (Now all I need to do is “fix” my site.)

Presently. Apparently Google is working on a presentation tool. Is anyone really surprised? I ain’t. For the time being, I’ll stick with S5, tho. But I believe Google will be taking a slightly different approach than the creator of S5, i.e. they’ll continue catering to non-geeks.

CSS Well Of Knowledge. 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without is a nicely done, dense list of cool techniques (with links).

Great quote. [via]:

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Minty! Mint v2. ‘nuff said.

Firebug video. Last week, Joe Hewitt, Firebug developer, visited the Sunnyvale campus to give a tech talk about version 1.0. The video of this very interesting session (choke-full of JS dev goodness) is available now over at YDN. There’s even a downloadable Quicktime version. Go watch.

I’ll now get me my morning coffee. Have a nice day.

That Greasemonkey article I was talking about a few days ago is coming along nicely.

We’re in the middle of polishing, and if all goes well, it’ll be posted within the next 72 hours.

Always exciting. :)