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How web standards feels

When talking about web standards many of us have started using marketing terms. Every day we hear about the bandwidth savings, the increased user base that are able to access your site, how well it…

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IE6 bug: Encode and ignore

I’ve previously talked about encodings and tried to explain how they work. This time I’ll show you a bug in IE6 that is based on encoding problems. Because if you don’t watch out,…

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Don’t use “Divs for layout” please

Proud people all over the world show their new sites and proudly proclaim: “I used divs for layout!”
There’s a problem with the above. Every time someone uses the phrase…

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IE6 resize bug (position: relative becomes fixed)

One bug kept popping up on the sites I built, and I was almost going insane. The bug I’m talking about is specific to Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and has to do with what happens when you resize…

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KTH goes web standards

Sweden’s largest technological university, KTH, just launched their new site and I’m proud to say that I’ve been responsible for the HTML and CSS for it. I’d thought…

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Valtech: my new employer

Just wanted to let you know that I have accepted a job at Valtech. My title will be “technical consultant” (which could mean anything, I know :), and you have probably already guessed…

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Correcting the 20 pro tips (.NET magazine)

.NET magazine is a fairly big web development magazine. I’ve recently been referenced to its articles from many separate places, and often found the articles to be of good quality. The last…

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Static and dynamic CSS combined

Some of you have probably heard “dynamic CSS”. It originates from a need to serve different CSS at different times, to different people, or on different pages. You do this by first…

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Finer details of floats

The other day I was working on one of those two column layouts. I quickly got into trouble by something I thought was a bug. It was a bug, but not in the browser(s) I thought. Let’s go.
A two…

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Challenge: Marking up the world cup

It’s at the end of the world cup and it’s everywhere (fotball for those that live in a cave :). It might be that I spend too much time with thinking about the web but I got this little…

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Reminder: Cross browser font sizes

I’m sure most of you have already read the excellent experiment on font sizes but it’s important enough to summarice here.
The problem is how to make as many browsers as possible…

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Beyond the web with CSS: PrinceXML and S5

Right now, depending on what kind of presentation you will be doing, you use different techniques. I’m not talking about “presentation” as in design here, I’m talking about…

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Real hackers don’t use CSS

Back in the old days of 1996 there were two kinds of people. Those who understood the web, often referred to as “hackers”, and those that didn’t. A hacker could throw together a…

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Concept: Four layers of web development

When thinking about web development on the client side, I tend to think of four different layers. Any (well built) framework will cater for all of these layers and all good developers will be aware…

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Inline CSS should not be allowed in strict doctypes

As many of my readers already know all pages should include a doctype. The doctype tells the browser (or other user agent) what kind of document it can expect and what standards it follows.
You can…

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Improving the web; Blogging, Google and Web standards

The web has really changed the way we do things. Remember those paper timetables? No need for them anymore, we simply type in our destination on a box and get a step by step guide for what to do….

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Emulating tables: Automatic width

Moving from tables to layouts based on CSS is a tough move for many. Things don’t behave the way they use to and some effects are much harder to do with CSS. This article is about one of the…

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Open letter to the IE Team

Dear IE Team,
I have carefully followed the development of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and really liked what I’ve seen. Especially the CSS bugfixes are wonderful, the tabs are really needed,…

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Web Development Pack

When I move to a new computer, I keep installing the same tools again and again. I always have problems finding them because they are spread out all over the net. This article is an attempt to…

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What beginners ask for (and what I tell them)

Being in an IRC help channel lets you meet a lot of people. Many are fresh beginners that just wrote their first lines of CSS and stumbled over something they found strange. When you look at their…

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Author: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström blogs about web development. Posts are bi-weekly.

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