Archive for the 'CSS' Category
Style tables with CSS
I don’t deal too much with tables. Not because I don’t want to but because clients hardly ever want to use them. My guess is that they are too hard to create with todays WYSIWYG…
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Documenting CSS
Just like all other programming the CSS needs documentation. I’m afraid I’m rather bad at it: the times I’m lucky I’ve been able to document by simply talking to the…
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IE8 and Doctype switching
The topic of this week has been IE8s new rendering mode, and the strange way to trigger it. As usual, I’ve decided not to comment right away, and instead first read what others are saying…
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Sharepoint 2007 from an interface developer’s view
Like Cameron Moll (Skinning Sharepoint and Pointedly unskinnable), I’ve been working with Sharepoint 2007 (aka MOSS) recently, and I hope you don’t mind me posting a few articles about…
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Future of web standards (my take)
Stuart Landridge sums up the ongoing debate about the future of CSS. My thoughts on this are that we should:
1. Let browser makers run loose with implementing new features, based on feedback from…
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IE8 renders the acid 2 test
I’m not sure why I don’t see that many people talking about the fact that IE8 renders the acid 2 test perfectly now. It really seems Microsoft is starting to move forward again, after…
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CSS3 Media queries instead of the media attribute
In my previous post about the media attribute I talked about how strange the media attribute is, and that its usefulness isn’t that obvious.
As a followup I want to point you to an article…
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Media attribute - what have you done for me lately?
I’ve been thinking for a while about the media attribute on link tags. Some people might find that thinking deep thoughts about HTML attributes is kind of strange, but I know you, my dear…
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@media Ajax London, here I come
Just a short note that I’ll be attending @media Ajax London, 19th-20th November. If you see me, come by and say hello!
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I’m an interface developer
In his latest post Roger Johansson asks the question Are we designers or developers?. I have a simple answer for that. None of them. Let me explain:
First we have these people calling themselves…
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Min-width and Max-width template
Some problems seem to appear again and again, and one of them is page width. How wide should a site be? Should you adapt to 800px resolution? 1024px? Fully fluid with percentages? Perhaps elastic…
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Reverse text with CSS (32 very special hex digits)
Sometimes you wake up and feel that big things are moving around you. You follow the news and find that people are uniting over something simple as a number. You read about people calling them…
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Transparent PNGs and IE6 standalone
I’m one of many that have installed IE6 standalone and it really is a great solution to running both IE6 and IE7 on the same computer. Frequently people claim that IE6 standalone and the real…
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IE7 Zoom Bug: Text width incorrectly calculated
IE7 shipped with a new and improved Page Zoom feature that lets you zoom more than just the text of the page. While I think I like it (there’s many saying it will make developers lives…
Separation in the blink of an eye
I’ve seen them so many times: pages where the HTML is mighty fine (!) but the CSS looks like it’s taken straight from Dreamweaver. While I hate having to deal with those kinds of…
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Dear Justin Timberlake…
You really are my big hero. When you swing your hips and slide over the floor so the ladies at the front row faint, I know I should have gone for superstar instead of web developer.
That Michael…
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IE6 bug: Ignored selector hover bug
IE6 bugs seem to pop up all over the place recently. This one is a very small one, but it might affect people that are building tabbed navigation or CSS-based tooltips. The problem is that IE6…
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How to structure large CSS files
Many methods exist to structure your CSS. This article tries to describe the method I use. I call it the “Tree method”, since it structures the CSS like… that’s right, a tree structure.
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Web development blogs you should read
The web is filled with blogs about web development. I’m always looking for good blogs to add to my feed reader and I thought some of you might do that too. So let me list the webdev blogs I…
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IE6 standalone with conditional comments and cookies
Just a quick note for all of you that wants to use IE6 together with IE7 on the same machine. It is possible to get both conditional comments and cookies to work on the standalone installation….
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