A quick apology to everyone who has been trying to access Dolphin Olympics. I have been travelling for the past few days and was not aware that it was broken. It is back online again. Thank you to everyone who wrote in letting me know about the problem.
The developers of IE 7 have posted details on their CSS changes for IE7.
PNG transparency? Hover on all elements? Min/max width/height? All but one of the bugs on positioniseverything.net fixed?
It’s like Christmas for web designers.
Keith Peters has done up a tutorial on putting together an Actionscript 3 development environment using Flashdevelop, the Flex 2 SDK, and a variety of plugins/tools. It does take a bit of work to set up, but if you are looking for an alternative to using Flex Builder 2 or the command line for learning/working with as3, it’s a great alternative and definitely worth the effort.
Microsoft is going to be pushing Internet Explorer 7 out as a ‘high priority update’ via Windows Auto Updater:
IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a “high priority” update via Automatic Updates in Windows XP, Gary Schare, Microsoft’s director of IE product management, said in an interview Tuesday…
“The justification, of course, is the significant security enhancements in IE 7,” Schare said…”
Not exactly breaking news, but good news nonetheless.
I’m filing this under ‘features to add’.
Watch Dolphin vs. Gull. (Only a few seconds long)
(That’s fancy-talk for ‘shoot-em-up inspiration’)
If you are at all involved in the business of designing hyper-dimensional flying fortresses (for games, animation, world domination, what have you), you may enjoy a visit to Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions, a database of spaceship pics from all over the sci-fi spectrum. While the huge number of ships he’s got up there is impressive, the real kicker is that they are shown side by side at relative scale. Very cool stuff!
There’s a nice review of Dolphin Olympics by John Bardinelli over at jayisgames.com. Excerpt:
“Dolphin Olympics is a game I’ve found I keep coming back to play for weeks on end. Its simple, one-handed controls fit the game perfectly and there’s no learning curve to bother with. Just fire up the game, do some tricks and call it a day.
“Although the driving force behind Dolphin Olympics is getting a better score, I’ve found the little micro-bonuses urge me to keep playing more than anything…”
The Dolphin Olympics has been updated with the following features:
I’ve had a few people complement me on my last name, but this guy’s blows mine out of the water:
…Proposed in the 1990 book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Hungarian-born psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced, he says, “chicks send me high“),…
-From the Escapist 57, Immersion Unexplained
Dude be messing up tongues.
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