I think every web developer or designer had at least one or more sleepless nights because a web page looked entirely different in all the different browsers on the market. It seems impossible to ever get rid of all the tiny and annoying differences but there are two main considerations that may minimize the effect…
Checkout a project from svn – the right way
Do you use eclipse? Do you use svn? Did you ever checked out a new project into your workspace?
If you could answer all these questions with a “yes” you might have noticed afterwards that you can’t do anything with this project because eclipse created it as “general project”, meaning no java, php or anything other specialized nature. This results in certain functions like Run as Java application not being accessable.
There are several solutions to that problem – but most of them are really ugly, imho. But since I don’t want to keep anything from you I will explain these methods too. So let’s get started…
Firefox 3.1 – A Designers’ Release
Many web designers will be pleased to see the list of changes that will be introduced with the upcoming Firefox release 3.1. Many exciting features have been integrated and are awaiting their use in new websites. Some of these are: the @font-face rule, which can be used to declare font files (that will be downloaded to the client computer in the background), some new HTML 5 features, an improved color management (allowing for colour correction based on ICC profiles) and JSON-support built directly into the browsers’ DOM.
Subversion and TortoiseSVN tips and tricks
David Vidmar has collected a very interesting list of commands, tricks and tips which will certainly help you dealing with very common problems using TortoiseSVN or any other subversion client.
Have a good look a the compiled list and be sure to bookmark it for the next crisis with TSVN…
Swing and JDK 7: Sun keeps it going
Danny Coward posted a statement regarding the future of the swing package in later releases of the JDK.
According to him, Sun will continue the work on Swing and even more try to ease the development and enhance the deployment and runtime performance.
The whole post sounds very convincing that Sun hasn’t given up and that Swing will become more and more useful (again).
Danny also mentioned new components in JDK7 like the DatePicker and CSS styling – both are very attractive to me and I can’t wait to use them in the next project.
Read the whole post at: Swing and JDK 7 : The Planetarium.