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Firefox extension: better tooltips.

chris @ January 9, 2006 # One Comment

Everyone has their own favourite Firefox extensions — that’s how the browser is designed. I just discovered a small one via idle browsing: Popup ALT Attribute. It was designed to show alt attributes in tooltip-style, but also enables multiline tooltips, usually from the title attribute. You can try it out by mousing over the two […]

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CSS graphs.

chris @ December 9, 2005 # One Comment

A link via Mr Peer: Apples To Oranges has some very nice examples of how to do bar graphs in pure CSS. I find elegant methods like this one much preferable to stretching a 1px image file every which way.

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GTK+ ā€œopen fileā€ dialogue, a small but useful tip

chris @ December 8, 2005 # No Comment Yet

Imagine you use Ubuntu Linux, or some similar Gnome (or XFCE) based Linux distro that comes with a useful and all in all well thought-out configuration. Imagine further that you’re a middle-of-the-road-user, someone who knows her way around the file system and masters some basic maintenance tasks. You know that many programs have configuration files […]

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