Wales are running away with it. Four tries in less than half an hour. And they’re making it look easy.

This grew out of a discussion regarding .ICO files and CSS on alt.html. Now, I made some mistakes in my off-the-cuff suggestion there (I used [att|=val] rather than the correct (and, annoyingly, CSS3) selector [att^=val]. After switching to the correct selector I realised that, even allowing for the simplification supplied by Toby Inkster, this would be Gecko only for now. But it is a nice trick anyway.

In essence what it does is insert a site’s favicon before any link to that site. As CSS doesn’t parse the value of att() it can’t be done on a generic level (it could be done with JavaScript but raises a number of other issues) but it can be done for sites that you link to frequently.

#content a[href^='http://groups-beta.google'] {
  background-image: url('http://www.google.com/favicon.ico');
  padding-left: 20px; background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

#content a[href^='http://www.imdb.com'] {
  background-image: url('http://www.imdb.com/favicon.ico');
  padding-left: 20px; background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

#content a[href^='http://www.amazon.co.uk'] {
  background-image: url('http://www.amazon.co.uk/favicon.ico');
  padding-left: 20px; background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

#content a[href^='http://en.wikipedia'] {
  background-image: url('http://en.wikipedia.com/favicon.ico');
  padding-left: 20px; background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

Installed the latest beta version of Opera this morning.

Things I like

• fieldset elements are now fully stylable – hence the WP create/edit post page is no longer all over the place.
• Feeds are much better handled – as well as supporting RSS Atom is now supported. The Feed interface has also been separated from the mail/usenet interface.
• User Interface has had a revamp and feels more posished and less cramped.

Things I don’t like

• The icon for a newsfeed associated with a web page is the letters “RSS”, even when the feed is Atom. Firefox made the same mistake and it was widely discussed at the time. Mozilla changed it to the current icon. Why is Opera repeating someone else’s mistake?
• Some of the keyboard shortcuts have either been broken or changed and not documented properly. CTRL+G should toggle bewteen Author and User modes but instead brings up the Search box. SHIFT+G should load images but instead toggles between Author and User modes. G should cycle through the three image display modes but instead does nothing.

Renew SFSFW membership: £18.00 and Rebel Storm miniature from eBay: £2.20.

Running total is now £356.74

Couple of bits of dino-mini goodness from Iron Wind Metals, who have rereleased some more of the Ral Partha Prehistorics range; and they’ve announced a deal with John Winter to produce a range of miniatures that will feature at least one dinosaur.

It seems a bit cartoony and it’s hard to judge the size but it looks like it could fall between the available Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosuar miniatures. So, Daspletosaur anyone?