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

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Because of the different rendering across browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer definitely see that in mind, we must always resort to tricks to apply special effects that now should be a standard. The award-discussed rounded edges are a classic example of "disaster" produced by the complete inability to make a serious standards on page rendering HTML / CSS. , etc… There are many solutions that allow the network to obtain the "effects" (effects of exempting existing HTML 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 ...
On a purely technical teaching I would like to explain further (cross-browser) to apply 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 Avision of home electronics. Nothing extraordinary except for the fact that the demo is in Flash !
It is curious, in fact, that despite the ads in a big way on the new rival to Flash, Silverlight in fact, released last year, Microsoft will continue inexorably to use Adobe Flash for its presentation, in fact refusing their child. It "was" talked about a new "experience" of user interface, new features, however, that no one - really - can really see. In short, if you can not use Microsoft Silverlight because it never should anyone else?

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

WASHINGTON "The famous webzine CNet Technology once again, ironically, a roundup of the worst advertising technology , sometimes bad others simply foolish. Maybe because most of the videos on portraying the atmosphere typically trashy eighties, which will be related to a time when technology was all that quickly became obsolete, in all cases to review these spots often draws a smile and some criticism.

Here are some really fun if you do not "ridiculous"

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Microsoft is about to create a competitor of YouTube ! Tim Sneath, Group Manager of the Silverlight development team, aims to create a new experience for users, enabling them to handle 720p video "broadcast-quality clips online"!

Adobe, for its part, is certainly not to look and re-launches with a spectacular new 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 scaling, support for multi-threaded vector renderer (4 Cores / CPUs), full-screen mode and hardware support for DirectX and OpenGL on Windows on OSX, and much more !

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

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Microsoft has released the beta of Silverlight , its Flash-Killer-Application. I downloaded and installed the plugin for Internet Explorer and I'm viewing. The first comments indicate Silverlight as an environment - similar to Flash - Enterprise applications ... stressing - so - deficiencies in the Adobe.
Silverlight integrates with the entire Microsoft suite (. NET), and evidently intended to take away the market share has 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 is shaping up really interesting. Microsoft has already hinted that cover much of what Silverlight will be given in open source, however, 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 encouraged to move urgently to version 2.1.2 . According to Secunia the problem of the last update of WordPress 2.1.1 is considered highly critical, allowing remote PHP code execution! Visit the official blog for more details on how to update the story, since it is the Italian version for some files there are special procedures to be performed.

Also for the first start in console security issues. A vulnerability in Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming console, in fact, would be the execution of foreign code, and the replacement of the internal software with Linux! The update to resolve everything has been distributed via Xbox Live.

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

Be emphasized are the words of Mike Shaver of Mozilla:

Do not look to the W3C for the Future

And the criticism of Apple's non-attendance:

They refused to send someone Saying That "we are busy writing software."

That, among other things, is 10 miles from where the meeting took place!

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Start arriving the first data on sales in Japan of the Playstaion 3. According to news agency Reuters , Nintendo surpassed Sony in a ratio of 3 to 1, were sold for every PlayStation 3 Nintendo Wii well (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 the Apple Mac OS X. However - as happened with the Internet Explorer 7 - at least Microsoft has aligned with current standards. And Apple is still a niche compared to the popularity of Windows, so this update of the operating system is still important for the general public.

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