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Kimili is the personal site of Michael Bester

Based in Massachusetts, Michael builds websites & a few other things. He sometimes writes as well. Questions?

RGBa CSS Generator for Internet Explorer

04 Dec 09

If you’ve been keeping up with how recent browsers have been implementing parts of the CSS3 spec, you may already be using RGBa to define semi-transparent background colors. You’d also know that this works in recent versions of Firefox and Safari, but not in any version of Internet Explorer.

There are, however, workarounds to get semi-transparent backgrounds working in IE. I’ve put together a little tool to make using one of these workarounds easier.

Mamma Licia

13 Nov 09

Being a married man has made me a better person in many ways; my wife has taught me much – much more than she realizes. One of the things she taught me is to pay more attention to and have greater appreciation for the food I eat. In my young and single days, the staples of my diet were sugary cereals, pizza, burgers or chili from Wendy’s and grilled chicken breast. Today, that has all changed.

Flexible Scalable Background Image

20 May 09

When I get Photoshop comps from designers to build in HTML, CSS and Javascript, there are inevitably some elements of the designs which work well in the Ivory Tower of Photoshop, but present unique challenges when translating those elements into code a browser can work with. One such element on a project I recently completed featured a fixed size content area layered over background image that took up the entire browser window. Here’s how I implemented it.

See more in the Journal.


Flickr

  • 18+91
  • Panna Cotta
  • Seen Better Days
  • Walk
  • Berth
  • Trek?
  • Vault Alarm

See more at Flickr

Recent Listening

  1. Celso Fonseca - Rive Gauche Rio
  2. Latin Playboys - Latin Playboys
  3. Orchestra Baobab - Specialist in all Styles
  4. Anoushka Shankar - Rise
  5. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
  6. Amadou & Mariam – Welcome To Mali
  7. Charlie Parker - Bird's Best Bop on Verve
  8. Charlie Parker - Best of The Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Recordings
  9. Björk - Homogenic

See more at Last.fm

Tweet, Tweet

  • 18+91. http://flic.kr/p/7JAFem

    • @dailyshoot #photo #ds114
    17 hours ago
  • I’m playing Angry Birds far too much. http://yfrog.com/6zlj1jj 1 day ago
  • Don’t Tell the Kids – http://nyti.ms/bpsqaN 4 days ago
  • Panna Cotta. http://flic.kr/p/7HDdg1 (thanks to @mammalicia)

    • @dailyshoot #photo #ds110
    4 days ago
  • Anyone have good book recommendations for someone who wants to get started in web design/dev today? Been ages since I’ve read one. 4 days ago

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