Posts in: CSS
- Web Standards Project releases Acid3
- Three years after the Acid2 test was released, the WaSP has developed Acid3. What’s Acid? It’s a reference test designed to help browser developers determine whether they are complying with W3C specifications, and how well they handle invalid code. Acid1 and Acid2 tested for compliance with CSS 1 and CSS 2 specifications. Acid3 also tests for [...] [3 Mar 2008]
- On IE8: Pragmatic and practical, but I still don’t like it
- For some background on this post, please start by reading Aaron Gustafson’s Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 on this week’s edition of A List Apart, or any of the links from my Internet Explorer 8 round-up post. This post is an extended version of my comment there. About 6 years ago, I remember [...] [25 Jan 2008]
- ‘Namespace’ your <body> tags
- Lately, I’ve been using specificity, inheritance and ‘The Cascade’ to my advantage by adding an id to the <body> tag of every page. This id acts as a namespace of sorts, allowing you to assign page or section-specific style sheets. It’s a technique I’ve employed on smaller, static sites. But it would work at least as [...] [18 Dec 2007]
- Dallas, TX: Webmaster Jam Session
- Get up to speed on web standards and design techniques with some of the industry’s top names. Just based on the speaker list, this could be the web conference to attend if you can’t make it to South by Southwest next March. Speakers include Molly Holzschlag, Garrett Dimon, Stephanie Sullivan, and Jared Spool. It’s really a [...] [7 Aug 2007]
- Open thread: Conditional comments: Yay or Nay?
- I’m a big fan of conditional comments. I agree with Jens Meiert that they are non-standard, and don’t adequately separate content and presentation. However, I think they’re the best option we’ve got for one huge reason: it is the only reliable workaround for Internet Explorer that does not also affect other browsers. The LitePacific hack [...] [29 Jun 2007]
- Open-thread: Must have HTML, CSS and JavaScript books?
- If you were going to help friend get started with front-end web development, where would you start? Which books (or Video tapes / DVDs) would you suggest they buy? Two of my picks: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan and CSS: The Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer. And you? [22 Jun 2007]
- Recommended: “Safari 3.0 Windows”
- PPK gave the Safari 3.0 beta a test drive on Windows. In this article, he outlines some of what’s changed. May I also suggest giving Shiira a whirl? Built on WebKit — the same rendering engine behind Safari — but with some nifty features. Related: Thoughts on Safari 3 for Windows [12 Jun 2007]
- Links for 2007-06-08
- Know your Enemy: Web Application Threats Is It A Racist, Sexist World In Wikipedia? Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It? LitePacific CSS Hack for Internet Explorer 6 & 7 plus Safari Who’s Got Style? First Look: Google Gears Camino 1.5: New Features And More Speed (I’m currently giving Shiira a test drive.) [8 Jun 2007]
