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Archive for February, 2010
Adding Facebook and LinkedIn icons on Mystique v2.x
Feb 25th
Mystique theme for WordPress has reached version 2.0. Milenko is very active on updating it. With 2.0, you don’t need to edit any theme files manually, and this makes it much easier to add new social networking icons and replace the default Twitter and RSS icons. Here is how to do it:
First, download the image below (all icons were created by Mark Hewitt, I only merged the LinkedIn icon into the default icon set. You can find other icons on his site.), and upload it to your site. It will go to the SITE_ROOT/wp-content/uploads/ directory, if you did not change your upload destination.
OK, now that you have uploaded your image to your site, you will have to edit your site style. You will add the necessary changes to Mystique’s settings, so that they will not be overwritten after a theme update. Go to your admin panel and select Mystique settings under Appearance. In the settings page, select the User CSS tab, and add the following lines there:
/* Extra navigation icons */ #header a.nav-extra.rss{background:url("/wp-content/uploads/nav-icons.png") no-repeat scroll right top transparent} #header a.twitter{background:url("/wp-content/uploads/nav-icons.png") no-repeat scroll -128px top transparent} #header a.linkedin{background:url("/wp-content/uploads/nav-icons.png") no-repeat scroll -64px top transparent} #header a.facebook{background:url("/wp-content/uploads/nav-icons.png") no-repeat scroll 0px top transparent}
The numbers after scroll in these lines select which icon to show. 0px is the first icon (i.e. Facebook), -64px is the second one (i.e. LinkedIn) etc. with decreasing 64 pixels.
Google is phasing out IE 6.0 support
Feb 2nd
Google Apps sent a notification to their users today. They say that they are phasing out IE 6.0 support in favor of new web technologies like HTML5. This is a very big and important step in the right direction. Web has been held back for too much time because of IE 6.0. I hope that other big portals follow this decision. The mail from Google:
Dear Google Apps admin,
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
