After all the jazz over using styled lists as navigation over the past year, one is perhaps surprised that this hasn’t appeared sooner. However, I guess that the methods of doing the styling are becoming fairly standardised and the browser bugs have been ironed out, so now is a good time for this. What is it? A wizard to produce navigation from lists. Save yourself a couple of hours if you are in a rush, get the wizard to do the hard work and you can do the fun tweaking portion! We likes that idea.

Slidesh0w. One of the nicest sites I have seen in a long time. Visit with a ClearType or XFT enabled computer for a visual treat. Oh, and a decent CSS enabled browser, of course.

On Microsoft and Eolas.

Zeldman posts a thoughtout missive on why MS may be trying to lose the patent case case brought against it. Having read the patent myself, I do think that Eolas have a fairly good claim. Have a read yourself, should you be so inclined and make your own decision.

Setting aside the validity of the claim, usually MS lawyers can work a way around patent claims such as this one. This has caused the theory that MS are actually trying to lose the patent case. Personally, I don’t believe it, but it’s an interesting theory non-the-less.

Some translations may be in order for the last post. After reading it, I decided there were rather too many IEs and MSs etc without explanation. So I expanded my regex replacement formatting tool to add helpful tooltips to common abbriviations in future posts. Though this will not help the previous post, future ones will use these regexs (or should it be regexii?).

Other examples are CSS, HTML and FIR. I shall add more as the need arises. A little easier for you to understand my random musings, dear reader.

You know you need to do a bit of bookmark spring cleaning when the menu for your ‘Blogs’ folder no longer fits on your 1600×1200 res flat screen. (Yes, I love my work monitor!)

Wish me luck wading through the bookmark morass…