Volete utilizzare il tag canvas di html5 anche su IE6 ed IE8?

Google ha la soluzione…

Modern browsers like Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera support the HTML5 canvas tag to allow 2D command-based drawing. ExplorerCanvas brings the same functionality to Internet Explorer. To use, web developers only need to include a single script tag in their existing web pages.

Example:

http://www.laliluna.de/struts-nested-iteration-tutorial.html

Reference http://struts.apache.org/1.3.10/struts-taglib/dev_nested.html

This magic CSS code is able to change the orientation of the printed page:

@page port {size: portrait;}
@page land {size: landscape;}
.portrait {page: port;}
.landscape {page: land;}

For more information, take a look to the CSS Print Profile specification

I thinked it was not possible to define printing orientation via a simple CSS! A very nice discovery indeed…

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Often Customers require a way of ordering columns of small html table. This JQuery plugin offer a fast, and nice solution:

jQuery plugin: Tablesorter 2.0.

There is a future for SmallTalk? I was a very strong fan of the SmallTalk language, but in the last five years I have seen more and more contraction of its usage in the IT field.

The OLPC project, which uses also Squeak Smalltalk and its done by the core team fo Squeak, is not going very well.

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We read in wikipedia:

"Mac OS X is the successor to the original Mac OS, which had been Apple's primary operating system since 1984 [...] The first version released was Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999, and a desktop-oriented version, Mac OS X v10.0 followed in March 2001"
The funny thing about MacOSX launch was the huge hype on the retail box: it was named "The world's most advanced operating system" and really it was very huge leap ahead.

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