Elsewhere on the 'Net - CSS

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20 September 2009

Fun with CSS

How to import style sheets based on a media query. This will be very useful later on.

CSS, Mobile | Permalink

23 May 2009

Web fonts now (how we’re doing with that)

Zeldman gives a useful overview of where we stand with regards to web fonts.

CSS | Permalink

21 May 2009

Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS

Andy Clarke discusses possible solutions to the IE6 problem, and then highlights his own: create one Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS file that will give any page a nice-but-basic typography and margins, but no layout or grid at all.

Interesting idea. We'll have to see what clients want (or whether they'll notice), but it sounds like an excellent intermediate solution between "don't bother with IE6" and "make IE6's rendering pixel-perfect".

CSS, IE, Theory | Permalink

11 March 2009

Performance Impact of CSS Selectors

Steve Souders investigates how CSS selectors affect browser performance. His tests tried several common selectors on a large, but not extremely large, HTML page.

Interestingly, IE7 is the fastest browser here, while IE8 and FF3.1b vie for the position of the slowest.

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16 February 2009

CSS doesn’t suck, you’re just doing it wrong.

Nicole Sullivan is not happy with the recent spate of CSS criticism, and argues that those who criticise just don't understand CSS well enough. My experience whispers she's right.

The really interesting point about the latest CSS flap is that there are apparently people who are not really interested in web design but are nonetheless forced to learn CSS. That, in turn, is apparently because their employer has decided they need this skill, which means that the demand for skilled CSS-ers is growing.

All in all I think this is good news for the standards-aware web community. In fact, I think we'll see such anti-CSS wars regularly from now on, and that every one happens because several thousand new people are (forced to be) learning CSS.

CSS | Permalink

12 February 2009

CSS3 Feedback: Selector Blocks

Yes! Yes! Yes! Give us selector blocks!

Instead of this

body.home #content .entry h2, 
body.home #content .entry h3, 
body.home #content .entry h4, 
body.home #content .entry h5, 
body.home #content .entry h6 {...}

we should be able to use this

body.home #content .entry {
   h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {...}
}

Give us selector blocks or death!

CSS | Permalink

11 February 2009

Styling the html and body Elements

About using the <html> and <body> tags as normal block-level elements, and what goes wrong in the various browsers.

CSS | Permalink

19 January 2009

WaSP Community CSS3 Feedback 2008

Excellent overview of CSS3 feedback given by web developers. Kudos to fantasai for doing this much work.

CSS | Permalink

9 October 2008

Zoom

Dave Shea said what I've been thinking for months: with all browsers (except Chrome) supporting page zoom, there's no more need for CSS techniques revolving around text resizing. Specifically, we can once again use px for font definitions and widths.

Dave poses it as a question, but to me there's really no debate: the endless checking of your page in various font sizes, and mending anything that may break, is not necessary any more.

CSS | Permalink

7 May 2008

line-height: abnormal

Exactly how does line-height: normal work? It's a confused mess. I'm SO glad we've got Eric Meyer to figure this out for us; I wouldn't want to do it.

CSS | Permalink

17 April 2008

No CSS Reset

Jonathan Snook explains why he doesn't use a CSS reset.

I'm okay if one browser displays an H1 a few pixels larger or smaller than other browsers. If one browser defaults to circle bullets and another to squares, that's usually not a problem. [...]

One of the principles I took away from the Web Standards community was the concept that pixel perfect precision across the various rendering engines was impractical and a remnant of the table-based layouts of yesteryear. With CSS and progressive enhancement, it was okay that things might look a little different from one browser to the next because of variations in what they supported.

Interesting argument.

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14 April 2008

CSS Variables

A proposal for CSS variables. I'm not sure what official status this draft has (it's not on the W3C site), but the idea is so excellent that I don't care. Browser vendors: implement this.

(Via CSS3.info)

CSS | Permalink

3 March 2008

Specify a maximum width for em-based layouts

Useful advice. I don't do this yet on QuirksMode.org, but I did supply a max-width on an em-based site I created recently.

CSS | Permalink

22 January 2008

Sub-Pixel Problems in CSS

John talks about rounding problems with percentual widths. The problem is a nasty one, and I decided long ago that even a perfect browser would have serious problems with this. Therefore I'm not particularly surprised that browsers differ on the exact treatment of percentual widths.

Just make sure you test everything in all browsers, and don't try to make the elements fit perfectly—that won't work.

In fact, when I use percentual widths my standard routine right now is to make very sure that, when all widths are added up, about 2 to 4 % of the total width is left for the browser to divide as it sees fit. (OK, usually my elements also have a padding, and in the "W3C box model" padding make everything much more complicated.)

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22 November 2007

In All Fairness … Internet Explorer Still Stinks

Sitepoint is on the verge of publishing an ultimate CSS reference, and one of its findings is that IE7, despite being light-years ahead of IE6, still doesn't have really good CSS support. Sitepoint has tried to be fair to IE by not counting its lack of support for inherit, but that action still doesn't help IE7 from running up quite a few "Buggy" entries.

I want to see their actual tables (and test cases) before committing myself to a stance on this, but the news seems to be not good.

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What’s not to love about instant cake mixes?

Andy wonders why everybody is so negative about "instant cake mixes" (nudge, nudge, know what I mean). What bothers people so much about them?

It's a fair question, especially since I think I count myself among the anti-cake-mix crowd—for now. Of course I have never actually used the instant mixes, so I argue from perfect ignorance; something that's quite popular in cake-baking circles.

Maybe, just maybe, the problem is that cake-baking as a whole isn't quite mature enough yet to automate. On the other hand, the very fact that instant mixes have appeared might mean that we have crossed the line from lovingly crafted handiwork being the only reasonable alternative to a situation where handicraft and instant mixes start to kind of — mix, so to speak.

The above paragraph rambles a bit, which seems to mean that I myself don't quite know what I want to say. Besides, I find myself moving away from baking cakes toward creating unobtrusive roast beefs as a topping for structural mashed potatoes and veggies—without ever using pre-roasted beef gridworks, it goes without saying.

Finally, Andy definitely has a point when he says that part of the fear comes from old-fashioned craftspeople afraid of being replaced by instant-cake-mixing factories. Nonetheless, craftspeople have been said to be in danger of replacement often, and it has never actually happened yet. True craftspeople just move on to a new craft instead of passively waiting to be replaced.

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How to Size Text in CSS

More years ago that I care to think about, Owen Briggs, one of the unsung heroes of early CSS, published an influential set of articles about text sizing in CSS. What always struck me is how much effort he put into this project; I mean, taking 250+ screenshots and then interpreting them is not something you do in a few stolen hours.

Unfortunately, the intervening 5 years and countless browser versions have made his conclusions less applicable to today's situation.

Therefore Richard Rutter of Clearleft fame has had the excellent idea to take a look at this question anew and publish his findings at A List Apart. True, Richard has done "only" 150+ screenshots, but still the result is quite worth it. Besides, he also covers text resizing, something that Owen didn't because back then it wasn't a factor in web developers' calculations yet.

CSS | Permalink

15 November 2007

Thoughts on CSS Snapshot 2007

David Storey offers a way out of the CSS 2.2 vs. CSS Snapshot dilemma:

Any feature that has more than one implementation should be listed with a short justification why it isn't included or ready.

Now we just need a list of such features. Maybe, in the new year, when I have more time, I'll see if I can create such a list.

CSS, Standards/W3C | Permalink

The Great Specificity Swindle!

Dispelling some CSS specificity myths. Useful overview of what early tutorials did wrong (or at least implied).

CSS | Permalink

6 November 2007

What would you want in an “advanced CSS” course?

Rachel Andrew asks what people expect from an advanced CSS course (or book). I'd like to know the same.

CSS, Skillset | Permalink

1 November 2007

CSS Animation

Dave Hyatt announces the lastest addition to Safari's CSS: animations.

div {
  opacity: 1;
  -webkit-transition: opacity 1s linear;
}

div:hover {
  opacity: 0;
}

Now this sounds great, but I have to agree with Shaun Inman and Jonathan Snook that these new properties blur the line between presentation and behaviour even more.

Behaviour and presentation have to be separated somewhere; there has to be some sort of line dividing the two. The problem is that on the CSS side of things there are plenty of people who want to slowly push back the line, integrating more and more functionalities that once were JavaScript-only into CSS (content, for one).

Now animations. Where will it stop? Presentation is presentation, and behaviour is behaviour.

Besides, didn't we decide that we should attempt to follow the W3C standards? For sure, "following" has acquired the secondary meaning "implementing declarations W3C is considering but hasn't yet made up its mind about", but just about all new CSS additions actually have some sort of basis in some sort of spec. Animation hasn't.

All in all I wonder whether this is a good idea.

CSS, Safari, Theory | Permalink

28 October 2007

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Snapshot 2007

Back in May, Andy Budd proposed CSS 2.2 as a way of filling the gap between the 2.1 specification and the current browser implementations.

The CSS Working Group has taken him up on this by publishing the CSS Snapshot, which gives an overview of the CSS 2 and 3 modules that browsers currently (mostly) support.

Any himself indicated that this is not exactly the CSS 2.2 he envisioned. He'd hoped for

a list of all the selectors, properties and values that the working group felt were stable and ready for implementation. That way, browser manufacturers could start implementing and testing new features, under the knowledge that they weren’t going to change. Similarly, us web developers could start playing with these features and baking them into our more avant guarde projects.

He's right in that the Snapshot doesn't exactly provide such a list, but I'm afraid it's the best we're going to get right now.

CSS, Standards/W3C | Permalink

11 October 2007

CSS Eleven: Are You In Or Out?

David Storey of Opera has a few critical notes about the CSS Eleven initiative. Although some of these are unavoidable (some people are not invited; big deal; I wasn't and I don't care), his other points may be more serious.

For instance, David feels that the members should be "elected"; and that brings us smack bang back to the elitism vs. democracy debate, in which I stand firmly on the side of the elitists (more on that in March in Austin).

The CSS Eleven consist of people who've decided to sacrifice part of their spare time for helping out countless other web designers/developers. As a general rule I feel that whoever does the actual work decides exactly how it is to be done.

Who would elect the CSS Eleven? Why would they have to be elected, anyway? Why should we let people who are not willing to spend a lot of time on these problems to have a vote in deciding who will be allowed to spend their time on it?

Further, David talks about the predominance of white males. Although this is undeniably true, I refuse to see it as a problem. After all, our web development world is predominantly white and male. (David also said there were no women in the group; and that's not true: Jina Bolton appears quite female to me.)

What David doesn't mention is the under-representation of non-native speakers of English (Roger Johansson is the single one).

Again, I don't really mind. I'm going to speak at two conferences in the next six weeks, and in both I'll be the single non-native speaker. No big deal, but when we bemoan the lack of women and non-whites in our web development world, non-native speakers of English should at least get an honourable mention.

Anyway, this, too, is something that won't be decided in a hurry. I wish the CSS Eleven all luck in the world; they'll need it.

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CSS Eleven

Andy Clarke has announced CSS Eleven,

an international group of visual web designers and developers who are committed to helping the W3C's CSS Working Group to better deliver the tools that are needed to design tomorrow's web.

Let's see what they come up with.

CSS | Permalink

WebKit now supports CSS @font-face rules

Now that, besides Opera, Safari will also start to support @font-face, it's becoming more and more interesting. IE still has its proprietary, but not wholly unworkable, .eot system. So that means that right now only Firefox is missing this particular boat.

Richard Rutter gives an overview of the pros and cons of downloadable fonts, and he finds the cons not very convincing:

  1. Some people will use horrible fonts.
    Sure, but when colours were introduced on the web, some people turned out to use horrible colours. Is that a reason to abolish colours?
  2. Intellectual property. Font foundries will gradually find themselves in the same spot as the music industry (though with three zeroes less of bottom line). The fact that there will be intellectual property problems does not mean we can't use this technique. In fact, the first font foundry that will devise a workable compromise will see a lot of growth.

Welcome, @font-face.

CSS | Permalink

8 September 2007

Some demos to check out Kestrel's new capabilities

Some test cases that show Opera 9.5´s new CSS capabilities. I haven´t yet downloaded the alpha version, but if it truly supports all that´s mentioned here, we´ve got a nice new browser coming.

CSS, Opera | Permalink

31 August 2007

CSS - the antithesis of frameworks

Alastair Campbell believes that frameworks cannot be applied to CSS almost by definition. He makes a few interesting points, most importantly that using CSS frameworks requires you to change your HTML, even though the point of using CSS is not changing your HTML for design purposes (see, however, here for a contrary opinion).

In any case, I'm wondering if this problem is fundamental to any CSS framework that will ever be written, or incidental to the current crop of CSS frameworks. If the latter, the situation can improve markedly as soon as a really good CSS framework is released.

I'm undecided.

CSS | Permalink

29 August 2007

Update on CSS support in Kestrel

As it says (Kestrel being the code engine of the upcoming Opera 9.5)

CSS, Opera | Permalink

CSS @ Ten: The Next Big Thing

According to Håkon Wium Lie, Web fonts that can be downloaded and used in your pages, are the next big thing. I agree they would be nice to have, but I'm wondering if they are quite that important.

CSS | Permalink

17 July 2007

Conflicting Absolute Positions

A step-by-step tutorial on using position: absolute for liquid layouts.

CSS | Permalink

16 July 2007

CSS3 properties tests for webkit based browsers, including the iPhone

Lots of CSS enhancements in Safari 3. Unfortunately Saf 3 Windows crashes when you scroll past one of the appearance tests.

CSS, Safari, Tests | Permalink

6 July 2007

CSS: Using Percentages in Background-Image

A solid treatment of percentages in CSS background-position.

CSS | Permalink

10 June 2007

Ordering the Link States

We all know the four traditional link states should go in the order :link, :visited, :hover, :active. But where does :focus fit in? Eric asks for your opinion.

CSS | Permalink

9 June 2007

The CSS working group is irrelevant

... says Ian Hickson, who's actually a member of said working group.

CSS, Standards/W3C | Permalink

16 May 2007

Formal Weirdness

Eric on form field styling, which is one of the most complicated areas in CSS. Interestingly, Eric doesn't give the rules (such as they are) that browsers obey (or not), but challenges you to think on what, say, select {padding: 10px} should do. No answers here, but a lot of the right questions.

CSS | Permalink

8 May 2007

CSS hover effect

Veerle shares a few useful hover tricks for liquid layout situations.

CSS | Permalink

CSS2.2

Andy thinks it's time for CSS 2.2: an intermediate step between 2.1 and the proposed (and proposed and proposed) 3.

My fear is that the W3C has bitten off more than it can chew, and this is having a negative effect on the web. We currently live in a world of live texture mapping and rag doll physics. And yet as web developers, we don’t even have the ability to create rounded corner boxes programmatically. The W3C are so concerned with shaping the future, I’m worried that they may have forgotten the present. Forgotten the needs of the average web designer and developer.

This complaint is nothing new; but nowadays it comes from serious standardistas instead of fringe people. Although I completely agree, I feel that W3C may (ponderously, but still) be reverting to the right track; witness the new HTML WG that at least tries to do things differently. And trying comes before succeeding.

CSS, Standards/W3C | Permalink

2 May 2007

Reset Reloaded

Eric's latest version of his reset style sheet.

CSS | Permalink

1 May 2007

CSS Float Theory: Things You Should Know

Large linkdump of all kinds of float-related tutorials, examples, and articles.

CSS, Linkdumps | Permalink

27 April 2007

How to prevent HTML tables from becoming too wide

Roger is forced to work on some table-based layouts, and discovers table-layout: fixed. His report states it works pretty well in all browsers. When I tested it years ago, support was not nearly as god.

CSS | Permalink

24 April 2007

Inherit Expression for IE?

Eric is still working on his reset styles, but is stuck on Explorer not supporting inherit. What he'd really like is

CSS, IE | Permalink

15 April 2007

Reworked Reset

Eric presents a 'reset style sheet' that essentially removes most default styles for many HTML elements by seting borders, paddings and margins to 0, etc.

CSS | Permalink

10 February 2007

Events in CSS and Web Design History

Eric asks for the most important and/or overlooked events in the history of CSS and web design. I thought about it for a while, but frankly I couldn't think of something that, to me, was much more important than all other events.

Fortunately most commenters aren't similarly inhibited. This promises to be a useful list for future historians.

CSS, History | Permalink

24 January 2007

Upcoming CSS3 support in Opera

About newly supported CSS3 selectors.

CSS, Opera | Permalink

19 January 2007

53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without

Useful linkdump of CSS techniques you're going to need one day.

(Via Naar Voren.)

CSS, Linkdumps, Showcases | Permalink

16 November 2006

CSS: Browser testing order

Andy Clarke reveals his CSS testing order. I don't entirely agree (I test everything I write in IE and Firefox simultaneously), but his approach interesting nonetheless—and it might turn out to be better than mine in the long run.

Browsers, CSS | Permalink

8 November 2006

Again with the Browser support charts

John Allsopp has updated his CSS compatibility tables, which are probably the best on the 'Net.

CSS, Reference | Permalink

20 September 2006

Top CSS Tips

Some useful CSS tips and best practices. I can especially recommend the zoom: 1 to force IE into 'having layout'; I often use it myself (also on this site).

CSS | Permalink

19 September 2006

Strange Medium

On the meaning of font keywords in CSS supporting browsers.

CSS | Permalink

6 September 2006

The FOUC Problem

Dave Hyatt on parsing order. Are CSS files read first, while the HTML is stalled, or are they read at the same time?

Browsers, CSS, JavaScript | Permalink

25 August 2006

New Headaches?

Dave Shea gathers IE 7 CSS regressions (stuff that works in IE 6 but not in IE 7).

CSS, IE | Permalink

23 August 2006

Details on our CSS changes for IE7

As it says. What has been fixed?

CSS, IE | Permalink

14 August 2006

IE and CSS "Compliance"

Chris Wilson gets tired of IE bashing, that continues even now that IE 7 turns out to be a giant step forward. True, IE is still behind the other browsers in some areas, but saying that it's moved forward only '2 %' is just plain nonsense.
'I'd love to have a honest, straightforward, unbiased statement of exactly where we (and other browsers) are – despite the fact that I know we would be behind today.'

CSS, IE | Permalink

27 July 2006

Dvoraked

Eric discusses John Dvorak's recent rant against CSS. Although he disagrees with every particular, he rightly points out that this reaction to CSS is common amongst newbies. Interesting point.

CSS | Permalink

17 July 2006

Breaking news: w3c specs are not Word of God

About definition-list-fundamentalism, float-exegesis, and other undesirable offshoots of the Web standards revolution.

CSS, HTML, Standards/W3C, Theory | Permalink

3 July 2006

Designing With Web Standards, 2nd edition

...and the Father of Modern Web Design brings us gifts, too...

Books, CSS, HTML, Standards/W3C | Permalink

Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design

And more booky goodness, this time by CSS/design superhero Andy Clarke.

Books, CSS | Permalink

13 April 2006

A Guide to CSS Support in Email

As it says. Includes compatibility tables.

CSS | Permalink

31 March 2006

CSS Accessibility

A useful overview of most important accessible CSS techniques. Start here if you're new to the subject.

Accessibility, CSS | Permalink

16 March 2006

Levels of CSS knowledge

An attempt at categorizing CSS knowledge.

CSS | Permalink

9 February 2006

css snippets from ie7 expert chat

Transcript of some questions and answers from a chat session about IE 7's CSS support.

CSS, IE | Permalink

4 February 2006

Epicycles: are complex css layouts the new nested tables?

I've often wondered the same.

CSS, Theory | Permalink

And All That (IE7) Malarkey

Andy Clarke's site seems to be the prime victim of IE7's lack of support for CSS hacks.

CSS, IE | Permalink

CSS Hacks in IE7

Andy Budd wonders about the IE team's drive to get rid of CSS hacks. 'I think the IE dev team are catering to a group of developers who build their sites with IE, rather than the standards in mind.'
Could be, but we'll have to get rid of the hacks anyway.

CSS, IE | Permalink

What’s New for CSS in Beta 2 Preview?

As it says. By the IE team.

CSS, IE | Permalink

2 February 2006

IE 7 - css-discuss

Where CSS-Discuss members are dumping their IE 7 information.

CSS, IE | Permalink

Cascading Style Sheet Compatibility in Internet Explorer 7

Highlights important changes in IE's CSS support.

CSS, IE | Permalink

23 January 2006

What I Want From CSS3 - Part 2

I completely agree, but I recall there were pressing reasons why this could not be implemented.

CSS | Permalink

18 January 2006

Introducing the Web Inspector

Safari will also get a Web Inspector. Looks useful.

CSS, Safari, Tools | Permalink

For the SELECT few...

On the changes to the select element in IE 7. The ancient bug will finally be solved.

CSS, IE | Permalink

10 January 2006

CSS 3 selectors explained

Roger Johansson takes a look at new CSS 3 selectors, of which a few are already supported today.

CSS | Permalink

4 January 2006

CSS3 Multi-Column Thriller

Andy Clarke discusses multi-column layouts and their typographical problems, and suggests a few extra useful column properties.

CSS | Permalink

22 December 2005

Star HTML and Microsoft IE7

Molly gives a useful overview of the discussion caused by the IE team's decision to remove the * html hack from IE 7.

CSS, IE, Linkdumps | Permalink

20 December 2005

Naughty or Nice? CSS Background Images

Derek Featherstone on some unsuspected problems with CSS background images.

CSS | Permalink

16 December 2005

Z's not dead baby, Z's not dead

Andy Clarke shows the nice things you can do with z-index. Includes a discussion of the stacking context, something that frequently baffles CSS newbies.

CSS | Permalink

12 December 2005

Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

Richard Rutter translates print typography best practices into CSS. Work in progress.

CSS, Reference | Permalink

3 December 2005

24 ways

An advent calendar with a web development tip for every day.

Accessibility, CSS, HTML, JavaScript | Permalink

1 December 2005

Common CSS Bugs in Safari, Firefox and Opera

Andy Budd starts a list of *important* CSS bugs in Safari, Firefox and Opera. Could grow into something interesting.

Browsers, CSS, Reference | Permalink

27 November 2005

Pandora's Box (Model) of CSS Hacks And Other Good Intentions

Tantek on CSS hacks.
'It is actually a good thing that a hack be visually ugly from a coding aesthetic point of view in the hopes that the ugliness will be a reminder that the hack is a hack, and should incite a tendency for people to a) minimize its usage, and b) remove its usage over time.'

CSS, Theory | Permalink

15 November 2005

Valid downlevel-revealed conditional comments

Inverse conditional comments explained; ie. conditional comments meant for browsers other than Explorer.

CSS | Permalink

5 November 2005

In search of the One True Layout

Interesting techniques for ordering columns, applying an equal height to columns, and creating vertical grids. This long article will no doubt come in usefully in a variety of situations.

CSS | Permalink

18 October 2005

IE7 and IE7

Eric Meyer advises us not to change our CSS hacks before the IE 7 beta is actually available. Furthermore, he feels that Dean Edwards's IE 7 script may become our saviour in time of need.

CSS, IE | Permalink

14 October 2005

Internet Explorer and the Expanding Box Problem

An interesting summary of the incorrect implementation of overflow: visble in IE. Solutions: use overflow: hidden (obviously) or the MS proprietary, but nonetheless interesting, word-wrap: break-word

CSS, IE | Permalink

13 October 2005

Call to action: The demise of CSS hacks and broken pages

I told you so...

CSS, IE | Permalink

7 October 2005

DevBoi Sidebar

I just discovered this useful Mozilla sidebar that lists all HTML, CSS and JavaScript elements, declarations and methods. The CSS part contains links to my CSS pages for further information on a few properties.

CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Tools | Permalink

26 September 2005

Maintainability, a.k.a. the CSS elephant

Simon calls for ideas on how to write maintainable style sheets. I completely agree that this is going to be a major problem, but unfortunately I have no brilliant ideas to share. If you do, tell Simon about it.

CSS | Permalink

16 September 2005

User-Defined Colors

How to use the user defined colors (active application bar, menu font size etc.) in CSS. Very useful, and this CSS capability isn't much used yet.

CSS, Reference | Permalink

14 September 2005

When Printing Maims

Eric Meyer says Mozilla's print CSS compatibility sucks. From my own experiences I completely agree.
My Mozilla 1.75 WinXP crashes when I use Print Preview on http://alistapart.com/articles/pdf_accessibility

CSS, Mozilla | Permalink

2 September 2005

CSS Table Gallery

Nice idea. A gallery of simple but effective CSS table solutions, so that data tables become less boring.
In the true CSS Zen tradition you can submit your own designs, too.

CSS | Permalink

1 September 2005

"HasLayout" Overview

Markus Mielke of Microsoft explains the feared hasLayout property, its use, and the disadvantage of giving everything layout. Very enlightening.

CSS, IE | Permalink

28 August 2005

On having layout

Very useful overview of the hasLayout property and the problems it causes.

CSS, IE | Permalink

27 August 2005

CSS hacks and server-side code

Stuart Langridge takes a look at a proposed way of removing CSS hacks from your code, and finds the method wanting.
Although CSS hacks are definitely a Bad Thing, and I find the proposed solution (using <html class='firefox' >, <html class='ie'> etc.) interesting, I agree with Stuart that it calls for server side browser detects. In additon to Stuart's criticism, I feel that browser detection is generally too subtle an art for server side coders who don't know their browsers. Besides, we all agreed we wouldn't use them any more, didn't we?

CSS | Permalink

percentage PLUS pixel sizing

Very useful CSS trick, and it's so damn obvious once you understand it.

CSS | Permalink

1 August 2005

pseudo-class, pseudo-element, pseudo-CSS

On IE problems with pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes.

CSS, IE, Tests | Permalink

26 July 2005

Footnotes and sidenotes with JavaScript and CSS

A subject that interests me highly. I recently considered a sidenote system like the one presented here, but with one slight difference. Maybe I'm still going to write that article, but I first have to study the examples mentioned here.

CSS, JavaScript, Usability | Permalink

18 July 2005

CSS Cheat Sheet

Totally useful!

CSS, Reference | Permalink

11 July 2005

Notes on Mozilla Quirks Mode

Which CSS properties change when Mozilla goes into quirks mode?

CSS, Reference | Permalink

developer.mozilla.org - alpha

Dedicated to providing solid information, documentation, and community for Mozilla and Firefox developers. Looks like an interesting initiative, and as far as I can see now the JavaScript and DOM pages might eventually take the place of the alas disappeared devedge JavaScript reference.

CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Mozilla, Reference | Permalink

10 July 2005

MIME Type Test Suite

A test suite by Gez Lemon that checks what browsers do right/wrong when you send XHTML pages as text/html or as application/xml+xhtml . Could use a formal compatibility table, but otherwise the tests are quite interesting.

CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Tests | Permalink

Web browser standards support

Interesting series of compatibility tables for HTML, CSS and JavaScript in Explorer Windows, Mozilla and Opera. I think my W3C DOM Tables are more useful and detailed, but the tables here are definitely more complete.

CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Reference | Permalink

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