On Thursday at the CeBit I’ve also been at Microsoft’s booth (’cause Apple wasn’t there). It was indeed one of the most interesting booths with a load of cool exhibits. But one of the things I was mostly interested in was Mircosoft’s Surface. The media had already covered it in their news last year and this year again and everyone talked about the XXL-iPhone, so I wanted to get my hands on it, too! Luckily, a Microsoft-guy was sitting right next to me while I was at the Multitouch-table and was able to explain how all the stuff works. But what he said made me wonder why Microsoft made this thing so damn expensive  (11,000€, with developer licences 30,000€ ~ 40,000$)! Because the technique is so simple and so not groundbreaking at all that you could actually build your own Surface at home! … read on!

Actually I wanted to write a post about J.R. Rotem and “The Writing Team”, but it’s kinda much… So, instead here’s another CSS-post.

When you want a picture to change, while the cursor hovers over it, you usually use JavaScript’s <onMouseOver> in this way:

<img src=”picture.jpg” onmouseover=”this.src=’hover-picture.jpg’;” onmouseout=”this.src=’picture.jpg’;” />
 

Although this is the common way, there’s actually another, better and way simpler way to accomplish this hover-effect, which also works when JavaScript is turned off in the browser.  … read on!