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Leopard build 9A283 cool feature [Leopard build 9A283 cool feature]

apoc — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:12:12 GMT

Apple today released a new seed of their upcoming Leopard operating system, build 9A283. It requires a fresh installation, so upgrades aren't possible at the moment. There are also a host of known issues.

New features:

- New Parental Controls preference pane allows you to limit access to the
system and apps, adjust content filters and enforce curfews
- iCal has significant UI changes
- VoiceOver screen reader includes 3D audio cues to indicate the location of
items on the screen.
- Live Previews in the Print Panel
- Preview now supports basic editing
- Audio via the headphone/lineout jack plays at the normal volume again
- Input Method Frameworks have been updated
- Groups and subgroups in AddressBook can be restored with Time Machine

Spotlight
- Quick Look supports PDF, HTML, Web Archives, Text, QuickTime
movies and sound
- Time Machine snapshots are searchable through Spotlight

iChat
- Spotlight Previews can be streamed in iChat Theater mode
- Replace Background video effect now available

Real cool eh? It would be excelent if they were using some king of holophonic sound emulation.

http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/testaudio/Cereni%20-%20Holophonic.mp3

Works better with eyes closed and stereo headphones.

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accessible CSS menus in IE [accessible CSS menus in IE]

apoc — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:31:15 GMT

Well, the idea is to create a cross-browser accessible menu using CSS and <ul>.

I've managed to achieve it but only in FF and Opera, in IE
the buttons don't render quite well, in my best effort only one of the button background images was not properly positioned ( lol ).

the result is something like this:

1st button is the over state.

 <ul id="SiteMainMenu">
 <li class="CommonButton"><a href="#">Como e Onde Fazer</a></li>
 <li class="CommonButton"><a href="#">Serviços</a></li>
 <li class="CommonButton"><a href="#">Notícias</a></li>
 <li class="CommonButton"><a href="#">Dossiers</a></li>
 <li class="CommonButton"><a href="#">Perguntas Frequentes</a></li>
 <li class="CommonButton"><a href="#">Contactos Úteis</a></li>
 <li class="SpecialButton"><a href="#">Área Reservada</a></li>
 </ul>

#SiteMainMenu li.CommonButton a {
 background-image: url(images/buttons/common/normal/left.gif);
 background-repeat: no-repeat;
 background-position: left center;
 background-color: #a7d93b;
 font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 font-size: 14px;
 color: #006600;
 text-decoration: none;
 padding-left: 8px;
 padding-top: 3px;
 padding-bottom: 2px;
}
#SiteMainMenu li.CommonButton a:hover {
 background-image: url(images/buttons/common/over/left.gif);
 background-repeat: no-repeat;
 background-position: left center;
 background-color: #d7ebac;
 font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 font-size: 14px;
 color: #2e68b2;
 text-decoration: none;
}
#SiteMainMenu li.CommonButton a span {
 background-image: url(images/buttons/common/normal/right.gif);
 background-repeat: no-repeat;
 background-position: right center;
 padding-right: 8px;
 padding-top: 3px;
 padding-bottom: 2px;
}
#SiteMainMenu li.CommonButton a:hover span {
 background-image: url(images/buttons/common/over/right.gif);
 background-repeat: no-repeat;
 background-position: right center;
}

That's not the final html/css, and i've tried various methods, changing diaplay modes setting height and width define the padding of every elements negative positioning of the span BG, but as i said, the span BG image remained incorrectly positioned.

can anyone help?

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WMP11 beta2 UI bug [WMP11 beta2 UI bug]

apoc — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:46:47 GMT

this was also present in the beta1, it happens (to me) when i/you/... restore the player, maximizing, minimizing(toolbar mode is not afected by this), resizing, etc does not fix the abnormal button behaviour, only a restart of the player.

it looks as it doesn't detect the rollout event.

one funny thing, don't know the technical name for these groups:

stop | prev | play | next [bottom middle]

full screen | compact mode [bottom right]

but the active button is the last hovered in those groups, only full screen or compact remain in hovered state after cursor rollout, never the both.

humm, is this the right place for this? i couldn't find the windows media player team blog and read in other threads ppl complaining about the same.

also, don't know if someone from the team will read this or not but, how about adding winamp-like queue system for the playlist?

imagine a big playlist, playing track1, and you want the next played item to be track 200 followed by track 250 and then continue to track 2.

handy but no big deal.

and another one, there's a flaw in the UI, it doesn't draw as expected when you alter the default border size, i'm using a value of 5px and this is the result when maximized:

the title bar gets cut of, same for the left border.

how about rendering the frame like the Vista version instead of the skinned UI? it would lose the consistency with those Luna themes but...

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os: win xp tablet 2005
wmp11 beta2

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