Willy P's Blog

My work badge,
with mini map of Waterdog Lake

For people that live/work in the San Francisco bay area, specifically the peninsula between San Carlos and San Mateo, the options for mountain biking/dirt jumping are really damn good considering the proximity of the various spots within this small area. I am able to access each of these 3 amazingly awesome spots within 5-10 mins of where I sit and for this I am very grateful. There are actually several more than these, but I am focusing on the ones I can literally ride to on a lunch break.
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Part 2 in my series on print.css

While one of your co-workers is in the middle of an annoying IE6 bug, say “zoom one” to them and chances are they will laugh (or maybe cry). The proprietary IE css ‘zoom‘ property has its roots in accessibility and well intentioned functionality however now it is mostly used as a IE6 hack to give an element the ‘has-layout‘ property.
It’s usually used in a moment of complete desperation at the last minute when nothing else is working; “dude…try {zoom:1}…. holy shit that worked!”.
» Continue reading “ZOOM is good for print.css”