Google Street View hits Shepparton

In Brief

After spotting the Google Street View car in Shepparton about 7 months ago, the surprisingly-complete photos of our local streets are now online.

I'm not quite sure when this happened. Australia may have been all switched on at the same time to coincide with Google Maps UI's recent redesign or it may have been a gradual thing implemented over the past few months, but I think it's all kinds of cool.

Privacy issues aside, I think this is a great tool as well as an awesome toy. I wonder how often Google plan on updating the street photography.

CSS variables are go!

In Brief

In a post I wrote almost a year ago (and in the ensuing comments), I pondered the possibility of someday being able to define variables natively in a CSS document without the use of server-side scripting.

Well it seems that in their most recent nightly build, WebKit has added support for this.

@variables {
    CorporateLogoBGColor: #fe8d12;
}
div.logoContainer {
    background-color: var(CorporateLogoBGColor);
}

I'm not sure if this is based on any particular official CSS3 recommendation or if its something that WebKit has just grabbed and ran with in the hope of it going mainstream, but its certainly a step in the right direction.