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Kyan vs. HTML5, round 2
Posted by Robin Whittleton on February 04, 2010
Back in October I posted an article on our first steps with HTML5. Unfortunately, since then we’ve tripped over a rather large stumbling block.
That article dealt with the reworking of our intranet. Luckily for me as a front-end developer no-one in the company uses Internet Explorer; this isn’t the case in the wider world. IE has problems with the new HTML5 elements: it can’t style them at all. There is a a solution though (courtesy of Sjoerd Visscher): create each element once using Javascript and IE suddenly understands that they exist. On the whole this is a very good solution, undercut by one fatal flaw.
Print stylesheets
At Kyan we view a print stylesheet as a common courtesy to users. With it we can strip out headers and footers and just leave the page content. While printing though (for obvious reasons) Javascript isn’t executed. This breaks our html5shiv script and means that the new elements are unstylable in all current versions of IE.
The workaround is to wrap all the new elements in wrapper
<div>s and style those instead, but then you’re increasing the amount of markup compared to current HTML4 or XHTML1, and for the time being this isn’t really a tradeoff worth making. Of course, with the gradual reduction of IE in the marketplace this tradeoff is something we should keep on evaluating. -
MMIX mix — So long 2009
Posted by Gavin Shinfield on December 31, 2009
Well, here we are, last throes of listmas and just time to publish the annual Kyan Festive 50. It’s been a great year for music, bring on 2010.
So, without further ado here are some of the tunes/tracks/jams (delete as per your sensibilitites) that have gained heavy rotation on the office jukebox over the last year.
In some, but no particular, order …
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New cards for Christmas
Posted by Gavin Shinfield on December 16, 2009
Our new coloured stock business cards with white foil-blocking arrived today. Blue is the new black.
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Freezing fingers, the solution
Posted by Gavin Shinfield on December 01, 2009
So, we’re all addicted to handheld touch-screen technology here at Kyan, but now that the weather’s on the turn we’ve got a problem on our hands (literally) — you can’t use your iPhone whilst wearing gloves. Or can you?
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Don't miss the Christmas Post-It®
Posted by Lee Whitelock on November 18, 2009
You would expect that being a digital company we would have little or no use for paper at all, especially when Instant messaging, e-mail or virtual paper (PDF) is in unlimited abundance. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Post-It® notes or ‘Stickies’ as they are more affectionately known, are powerful tool here at Kyan. This simple and versatile piece of sticky-backed paper is a useful tool for organising and visualising information quickly and effectively.
So, with Christmas creeping up, we had to think about our company Christmas card to send out to our clients and friends. Taking inspiration from this invaluable, 3 inch square and other works of Post-it® art (available to view on colourlovers.com) we created our very own pixelated, colourful Christmas tree on our new office walls. We all agree it looks very striking and it has also decorated our office in time for Christmas.
Watch our stop-frame footage and see it grow.