Richard Rutter:
Since its inception in 1996, CSS has provided a way of displaying these other weights through use a numerical scale with the font-weight property. This is still almost entirely broken in every current browser except Firefox 3 on Mac.
On UI Quality (The Little Things): Client-side Image Resizing
Flickr Developer Blog:
IE 7 supports high-quality bicubic image resampling, producing results akin to what you’d see in most image editing programs. It’s disabled by default, but you can enable it using -ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic;.
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The Uncanny Valley of user interface design
Bill Higgins:
So I’d recommend that if you’re considering or actively building Ajax/RIA applications, you should consider the Uncanny Valley of user interface design and recognize that when you build a “desktop in the web browser”-style application, you’re violating users’ unwritten expectations of how a web application should look and behave.
Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface
Jeff Atwood:
In my experience, shoehorning desktop conventions into web applications rarely ends well. I was never able to articulate exactly why, but the uncanny valley theory goes a long way towards explaining it.
Equal Height Columns with Cross-Browser CSS & No Hacks
Creating equal height columns with CSS is not as easy as it may first seem. This tutorial highlights the display problems that occur with multiple column layouts, and then shows a simple solution that works in all common web browsers. The method shown here is 100% CSS hack-free, image-free and JavaScript-free so it can even be used on the most strictly coded websites.