This year is the first time the shortlist includes practices who have all previously been shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize; and also includes two RIBA Stirling Prize winners: David Chipperfield Architects and Zaha Hadid Architects.
Monthly Archives: July 2011
CSS Selectors and Pseudo Selectors and browser support
The following is a range of CSS tests of the most common browsers’ support for selectors and pseudo selectors. The tests includes basic stuff from the good old days of CSS1 and funky stuff from the future (CSS3).
kimblim.dk: CSS Selectors and Pseudo Selectors and browser support
Meet the Pseudo Class Selectors
Pseudo class selectors CSS selectors with a colon preceding them. You are probably very familiar with a few of them. They are immensely useful in a variety of situations. Some of them are CSS3, some CSS2… it depends on each particular one. Outside of IE, they have great browser support. In IE land, even IE8, support is pretty barren. However, the IE9 preview has full support of them. The link-related ones work but not much else. Let’s take a brief look at each one of them. Don’t worry, there isn’t that many.
CSS Lint is Harmful
In short: don’t blindly follow the crap these tools tell you. Chances are very high you’ll do yourself more harm than good, ending up with harder to maintain, bloated code, with nary a change in how fast your site feels.
Gemasolar Concentrated Solar Power achieves key milestone
The Gemasolar Concentrated Solar Power plant near Seville, Spain, has achieved a full 24 hours of solar power production one month after starting commercial operation. The 19.9 MW plant uses a huge array of mirrors to heat a molten salt storage system in the central tower which is then used to run steam turbines, resulting in the ability to continue energy production after the sun goes down.
Gizmag: Gemasolar Concentrated Solar Power achieves key milestone – 24 hours of uninterrupted supply
Usaura – Free, instant click tests
Problem: You’re designing a website or an app and want real user data to highlight problems before you go live and to help you pick the best iteration.
Solution: Test your interface designs with Usaura and get real user test data in minutes that will help you make smarter design decisions.
Portable Speakers Now As Small As Credit Cards
The Card Speaker, designed by IDEA International, is a portable speaker system that operates for up to 5 hours on a 2-hour charge. No bigger than a credit card, the sleek speaker connects to any device with a 3.5 mm headphone plug, and charges via USB battery charge cable. Colors come in gold, silver, or black.
Solar Ivy Modular PV System
Solar Ivy is a modular and customizable photovoltaic product with a wide range of applications. The ‘leaf’ is roughly the size of a cantaloupe with a thin-film photovoltaic panel adhered to it. Customers can choose either an organic photovoltaic panel, which is completely recyclable, contains no toxic materials, and costs about $18 per watt, or a CIGS panel, which is the most efficient type of thin-film on the market and costs roughly $9 per watt. After selecting a PV type, customers can choose the leaf’s color shape depending on how they want the system to look when integrated into their project.
Inhabitat:
Solar Ivy Building-Integrated Modular PV System Grows Bigger & Better