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Friday July 14th, 2006
3.4
Interview with Håkon Wium Lie
From CSS Insider, over 2 years ago,
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Check out this Slashdot interview with Håkon Wium Lie, the originator of the CSS idea. (Can you believe it's been over 10 years since CSS was proposed? Time flies when you're coding with tables!) Lie currently serves as CTO of Opera Software.In the interview, Lie suggests that before releasing IE 7, Microsoft should ensure that the browser passes the Acid2 test and supports TrueType downloadable fonts. He also discusses XML, microformats, Ajax, and (of course) the future of CSS. Read the interview and watch him effortlessly knock down all suggestions that CSS is somehow lacking in capabilities.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Thursday July 13th, 2006
5.1
IE 7 Beta 3 available
From CSS Insider, over 2 years ago,
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Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 has been announced and is now available for download. Features include tabbed browsing, RSS integration, multiple search engines via the built-in search box, and more. Sure, these are all features that Firefox, Safari, etc. have had for a quite some time, but as the old saying goes, better late than pregnant. There are no new CSS features, however; Microsoft has stayed true to their promise that, for better or for worse, as of this March IE 7 was "layout complete."Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
4.6
Styling the html element
From CSS Insider, over 2 years ago,
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In his article "HTML's a Tag Too," Bryan Veloso discusses the benefits of applying styles to the <html> element. He argues that by making more effective use of <html>, developers could eliminate the need for a wrapper div. Everything would effectively be "moved up" a level - apply global styles to <html> instead of <body>, and then <body> can serve the same purpose as the wrapper div would have. Bryan points out that this can be particularly handy in XHTML 1.1, in which the <body> no longer stretches the entire length of the page. It's a neat idea, but for many developers - particularly those of us who work on large, enterprise-level sites - it is simply impractical. On large sites, rarely would you want to declare a global background image, for example. Or, you may not be able to access certain elements of a page at all, due to CMS limitations or other restrictions. However, for a small-scale site, styling <html> could be a good way to reduce divitis, as long as you're mindful of scalability issues.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
3.4
Facelift for sunhome.biz
From CSS Insider, over 2 years ago,
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WebdesignFromScratch.com recently gave sunhome.biz a slick re-design and they documented there thoughts and motivations so everyone can learn. The original design was drab with a large white space in the middle of the page. Also, the original design doesn't consider the needs of its target audience, senior citizens. The new design is much easier to follow and more pleasing to the eye. Give the article a read to learn the specifics of what they changed and why they did what they did, which is the best way to learn good design.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Wednesday July 12th, 2006
3.4
ClickTale: Watch what your visitors are doing
From CSS Insider, over 2 years ago,
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Analytic services provide valuable stats to web site owners and can be the only way of determining if a design is really working or not with real users. ClickTale hopes to up the ante by recording user actions so you can see every mouse movement, every click, and every scroll. Then the service lets you, the owner, see exactly what the user did. Perfect for testing usability. Currently ClickTale is a closed beta but you can sign up for updates by email. A web 2.0 site that is plum purple? I like it.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments