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Archive for January, 2010

Google and the blocking of adverts in Chrome

13.01.2010 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Technical Comments: 1

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When the Chrome extensions gallery opened in December last year, I had wondered if ad-blocking extensions would surface. Given that Google currently derives nearly all its revenue from adverts, it would appear to make no sense for them to allow their own adverts to be blocked by Chrome.

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Social media and social responsibility in digital marketing

11.01.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: General Comments: none

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Social responsibility and marketing aren’t phrases that sit together very comfortably, but in this age of openness and accountability, they’re increasingly being used in the same breath. At a glance you’d think that communication solutions produced digitally would be more environmentally sound than traditional printed methods, an email, for example, doesn’t use up any trees, or expend any petrol to get to its destination. However, recent research has found that reading the news online for 30 minutes actually produces more CO2 per year/per reader, than reading a printed newspaper.

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Learning HTML5: Getting started

08.01.2010 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Technical Comments: 1

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The HTML5 working group doesn’t do PR. This became evident last year in the negative blog posts after Ian Hickson (lead editor) set 2022 as the target date for a final proposed recommendation. Unfortunately, this was misenterpreted as the date HTML5 would be ready for use, which isn’t true at all. Web specifications have a notoriously slow moving approval process, where drafts are proposed and discussed over many years. However, as CSS2.1 has shown, the technology can be used well before final approval is reached.

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Anti-Aliasing versus Non Anti-Aliasing

06.01.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Creative Comments: none

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A small argument developed in the studio the other day over the issue of presenting clients with visuals using Anti-Aliased text. After the dust had settled and the bodies cleared away, it became apparent that the debate was a classic one of best versus worst case scenarios.

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