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Among the various funny "interpretations" that Internet Explorer 6 is able to do with HTML / CSS, the "double margin" is certainly the most tedious and often. In practice (surprise, surprise ...) good browser Microsoft succeeds - mysteriously - to double the margins on the elements set to float! : As such the following CSS applied to a div with id box :

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Because of the different rendering between browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer definitely see that in mind, you always have to resort to tricks to apply special effects that, by now, should be a standard. The award-discussed rounded edges are a classic example of "disaster" produced by the complete inability to carry out a serious standard on page rendering HTML / CSS. , etc… There are numerous solutions on the net that allow you to get the "effects" (effects which exempt from the HTML current as rounded edges, shadow effects, reflections, etc ...) with patches on the leaves of styles, special tricks with the use of div grafted, libraries Javascript, use of canvas , etc ...
As I will illustrate further purely didactic technique (cross-browser) to apply to the rounded edges of the images:

Demo and source

• Complete project on Google Code
• demo
• jquery.roundborders.js
• image in Photoshop format
• image in PNG format

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Microsoft has released a new demo of Windows Home Server and avisione of home electronics. Nothing extraordinary except for the fact that the demo is in Adobe Flash !
It is curious, in fact, that despite the announcements in a big way on the new antagonist of Flash, Silverlight in fact, released last year, Microsoft continues inexorably to use Adobe Flash to his presentations, refusing in fact his son. It "was" about a new "experience" of user interface, new features, which no one - in truth - can really see. In short, if you can not use Microsoft Silverlight why on earth should do it someone else?

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I take inspiration from an article published on corriere.it which lists the 10 worst video ever made ​​in the history technologists .

WASHINGTON "The famous webzine technological CNet once again, ironically, a rundown of the worst advertising technology , sometimes downright ugly others simply foolish. Maybe because most of the videos on trash typically portray the atmosphere eighties, which will be related to a time when all that was technology has become obsolete quickly, in all cases review these spot draws a smile and often also some criticism.

Here are a few really funny if it "ridiculous"

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Microsoft is about to create a competitor to YouTube ! Tim Sneath, group manager of the Silverlight development team, aims to create a new experience for users, giving you the ability to handle 720p video: "broadcast-quality clips online"!

Adobe, for its part, is not there to watch and re-launches with a new and spectacular Flash Player update (build 9.0.60.120) , surpassing Microsoft and pointing directly to 1080p !

Multi-threaded video decoding. The VP6 video codec will now run in a separate thread if a multi-core system is detected Which leaves the main thread to do rendering and post processing of the video. With this true 1080p video is now possible on most modern dual core machines. Also, the responsiveness is improved with this change. The Sorenson codec on ​​the other hand did not get this change for technical Reasons.

The latest Flash Player update contains several improvements: enhanced rendering during the operation of scaling, support for multi-threaded vector renderer (4 Cores / CPUs), Full-Screen mode via hardware support for DirectX on Windows and OpenGL on OSX, and much more !

A competition, that between Silverlight and Flash, which is definitely giovando both developers and end users. The progressive approach to high definition opens, however, the issues related to DRM (prazialmente already addressed in other posts). The high quality of the video, in fact, concerned about the large producers and the studios who fear losing the one hand imported opportunity to enter the age of the video on the Internet and Net TV, and on the other they are terrified by a 'worrying lack of DRM, "unique tool" that can ensure their survival!

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Microsoft has released the beta of Silverlight , its Flash-Killer-Application. I have downloaded and installed the Plugin for Internet Explorer and I'm viewing. Initial feedback indicates Silverlight as an environment - like Flash - for Enterprise Applications noting ... - so - Adobe deficiencies in the environment.
Silverlight integrates with the entire suite Microsoft (. NET) and is apparently intended to take away that slice of the market not yet reached by Adobe Flash, popular, loved, but outside certain contexts where the tools and frameworks Microsoft if the command!

However, there is such a quantity of Flash code, compiled or not, that the battle between the two promises to be really interesting. Microsoft has already made ​​it clear that much of what we will cover Silverlight will be given in open source, or at least with free licenses. Let's see how the community will react to this new born ...

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Who has recently updated WordPress is strongly requested to go urgently to version 2.1.2 . According to Secunia the problem the last update of WordPress 2.1.1 is considered highly critical, allowing the remote execution of PHP code! Visit the official blog for more details on how to upgrade the version as it is for the Italian version that for some files there are special procedures to be performed.

Even for consoles begin in early safety problems. Vulnerability in Microsoft XBox 360 game console, in fact, would be the execution of foreign code, is the replacement of the internal software with Linux! The update to resolve everything has been distributed through Xbox Live.

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Located in Sunnyvale, California, Yahoo brings together Silicon Valley WebBuilder Mike Shaver of Mozilla, Chris Wilson of Microsoft's IE team and Hoon Lie of Opera, to discuss on the current state of eternal war between the browser.

It should be emphasized are the words of Mike Shaver of Mozilla:

Do not look to the W3C for the future

And the criticisms of the non-presence of Apple:

They refused to send someone saying that "Save we are busy writing software."

Which, by the way, is 10 miles from where the meeting was held!

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They start to get the first data on sales in Japan of the Playstaion 3. According to news agency Reuters has surpassed the Nintendo Sony with a ratio of 3 to 1, for every Playstation 3 have sold well Nintendo Wii (data from January 2007 405,000 148,000 Nintendo against the PS3).

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Windows Vista has arrived. No extraordinary novelty. All have seen on Mac OS X from Apple. However - as happened with Internet Explorer 7 - at least Microsoft aligned to current standards. And Apple still remains a niche compared to the popularity of Windows, so this upgrade the operating system remains important for the general public.

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