Weblog tag: css
I've just done my Building Better Webapps presentation at the Spring Experience in Miami. I it went pretty well, as far as I can tell, but I realised that there were a whole bunch of links I wanted to...
We got an email sent to Content with Style from one of the IE7 development guys last week warning us that the site was broken in the forthcoming browser. From what I'd heard I was under the impression...
I released a new article on Monday called Playing Nice with the Other CSS Kids. As always, I've been watching its progress around the internet community very closely. Having done this a few times now...
I know I've been quiet for a while but this is why: Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps. It's been a couple of weeks in the writing and researching but I'm hoping it's going...
This service has probably been around for a while but I've only just discovered it... PubSub. I popped in "web standards", css, accessibility and "user experience" and subscribed to the resulting...
I've been very quiet of late and here's the reason. I'm pleased to announce the launch of Content with Style, finally. It's been an awful long time coming but we're finally decided that it's more...
Damn it, I was planning on doing this myself! Aaron Gustafson has written a nice little DOM script to dynamically replace your tired and inconsistently implemented (try z-indexing them) select boxes...
I've been using the Position is Everything Float Clearing method in production for a while now. Getting the clearing divs out of my markup was very satisfying, in a geeky sort of way. The method is...
Manfred Staudinger has put the final piece in the multiple-IEs puzzle together over at Position is Everything by finally finding a way to fix the conditional comments problem and pop version numbers...
Molly Holzschlag has written up her impressions of the recent Web Design World conference and what it means for the industry and web standards. I've noticed a few of these things myself but without...
It's been a while since Dunstan made any technical posts but this Solving CSS Problems for Mozilla Europe serves to remind us of why he's one of the most respected CSS folk in the business. Demo 2...
WebGraphics have done a clever little experiment with some lesser-known CSS3 - target: and the substring matching selector. Basically, they've figured out a way to show extra information to people who...
Does exactly what it says on the tin: it's a big chart of all the CSS 1 and 2 properties and suppport for them by the various browsers... Handy....
Richard Rutter over at Clagnut has spotted a fantastic little bit of javascript on the Couloir site. I'd seen the site before but I'd just assumed that it was another Flash photo switcher... Turns out...
A couple of interesting finds turned up on CSS-D today, bith of which could prove very useful. The first was a solution to Big John's How To Clear Floats Without Structural Markup effort... Mark...
I had my first real brush with XML and XSLT transormations last week and I am very very impressed. The CMS I'm working with generates XML transformed with XSLT to spit out the navigation elements so I...
Mike's article on the ABC News Redesign has been discussed elsewhere already but I thought it might be worth drawing attention to his second-to-last paragraph 'Another business case for web...
It's been a while since I've been really surprised about a new hack but this one has amazed me... How To Clear Floats Without Structural Markup, documented on Holly and John's Position Is Everything,...
I've never had to monkey with HTML 4 Transitional doctypes before but the project I've just finished required it and it's brought home exactly WHY I've never done it before. Having the HTML 4...
I think I'm a bit late on this one but style:phreak has put up a nice little demo of an XHTML form. Now that's hardly groundbreaking but the code is very nicely structured and I particularly like his...
It's been a ridiculously busy few weeks but I have a couple of site launches to show for it. First up is a small one: Locus Design. I built this one with Draught Associates, who designed it. It's...
This has been a while coming but it looks like Dave Shea has finally solved the min-height issue for all the current browsers. It's an ugly solution, requiring more hacks than your average issue of...
Just a quick update... Mike Davidson has released version 2.0b of sFIR, which adds improved performance, better flexibility and even accessibility to the mighty script. I used sFIR for the first...
Mike Davidson was the original daddy of the Flash Image Replacement technique, having invented and employed his own version in the ESPN redesign a couple of years back. More recently the technique was...
Digital Web Magazine has publishied a great article by Ethan Marcotte about Producing Quality CSS in a Team Environment. Most of us that do CSS for a living are self taught and used to working alone -...
Flash, DHTML Menus and Accessibility explains the use of the much-neglected wmode property of Flash movies. Turns out that it can be used to hide decorative movies from readers as well as allow the...
The bandwidth-saving aspect of CSS is something that I've neglected of late when selling CSS as a technology. Mostly people are interested in the accessibility aspect and occasionally designers want...
These came up on CSS-D today and I thought it might be worth gathering these Image Replacement Methods together into one place. So which is best? Not sure. Accessible I, Accessible I Revised,...
There's been a really good discussion of web standards and their uptake going on over at asterisk over the past few days. Keith called on beginners and pros alike to say what they thought the barriers...
Wow, the Zen Garden has done it again... The latest 3 designs are possibly my 3 favourites so far. Oceans apart isn't anything groundbreaking but it's incredibly elegant design very well executed....
In a fit of self-indulgence I decided to Google my Zen Garden entry, Postage Paid. And I got some quite interesting results! There was Dave Shea's initial post about the batch of designs that Postage...
Woohoo! My Zen Garden submission made it... I'm dead chuffed about that and more than a little bit relieved. I was trying to do something a little bit different to the other hi-design submissions...
