After joining the “Say-No-To-Ie-6-And-Upgrade-Your-Browser” campaign a new miracle has come …

The old IEPNGFix script fixes the support for alpha transparency in IE 5.5 / 6.0 is now update to a new version, that has the ability to use CSS1 compatible background position and repeat.

To make it work properly you have to set the background to repeat, and the PNG will stretch to fill the element, and if you set to ‘no-repeat’, the PNG will display once (untiled) pixel-for-pixel.

Download the script

Recently I’ve got an iPhone (thanks Darren!) and I was searching for applications and stuff to customize it. I was looking for an easy way to manage my blog. Thanks to “7 Tools For Blogging On Your Phone” I found a great plugin “iPhone / Mobile Admin” that has a mobile friendly interface and allows you to enter posts directly to your blog, to manage posts and moderate comments. It is made mainly for the iPhone & iPod Touch, but it will work in most other mobile browser.

It helps a lot, you don’t have to pinch to zoom in/out.

Most common WordPress admin features are supported:

• Dashboard sections: Incoming Links, Comments, Posts, Blog Stats
• Writing and editing posts (including auto-save)
• Tagging support in 2.3
• Comment Moderation
• Manage Posts page
• Manage Profile page
• Ability to toggle back and forth to the normal admin view.
• Support for plugins that include fields on the post page
• Compatibility with existing library of admin plugins

I recommend it for anyone who wants to post from a mobile device.

The previous week when I was stumble upon and I found a great example how you can create a nice form button with round corners using the BUTTON element. Of course I think it can be improved giving more value.

The tutorial starts by comparing the INPUT type=”submit” element and BUTTON element. The most interesting difference is that the BUTTON element may have content. So, the goal is to create and style a nice web 2.0 button that can be resizeable so there is no need for later interventions. The button element will be treat as container and we will add some markup.

You can see in the demo that I used the button in different combinations, that I know that is good for integration & usability.

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I have start my menu from “Flickr like horizontal menu” and I improved it because it has a bug in the css. You can’t add more menu items on a line.This horizontal menu that I want to show is used also by many well know websites as Facebook, LinkedIn and Flickr.

I made a very nice, simple and useful menu, developed with jQuery. If we can use js framewords why not, jQuery it’s very easy to use for traversing the DOM. The menu can be very easy implement with Prototype, MooTools or basic javascript functions.

I’m open for comments and suggestion so please add your comment.

View demo or Download the source code