Posts in: Web standards
- Reebok’s Run Easy
- A pretty cool piece of technical work: strictly an (x)HTML, CSS and JavaScript front-end — no Flash necessary: Run Easy. I’m interested to know the firm behind the site. UPDATE: As Paul Irish posted in the comments, Boston-based web firm Molecular developed the site. [7 May 2007]
- Video of the day: Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
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- Molly explains what’s up with CSS and Outlook 2007
- From the post: As it turns out, in past versions, Outlook used two rendering engines. IE’s for reading content, and Word for composing messages. What this meant was that if you were replying or forwarding HTML emails, previous versions of Outlook would first use IE’s rendering engine to view it, then would switch over to the [...] [17 Jan 2007]
- Getting rid of spaces between vertically-stacked images
- So you’ve got an HTML page (or HTML e-mail) with vertically-stacked images. And you’ve noticed a little problem: Each image is followed by a line of blank white space. So you check your code. You remove all of the line breaks and spaces from around your img tag. Then you refresh your browser window. And guess [...] [16 Jan 2007]
- 24 Ways is back
- 24 days, 24 web development tips from some top names in the field. [1 Dec 2006]
- Methods for embedding Flash
- I stumbled across this year-old post: In search of … a perfect plugin technique. Lots of good stuff about the pros-and-cons of various means of embedding Flash content. I’m partial to two methods: Using JavaScript to write the object and embed tags, and providing a <noscript> alternative, such as a static image. Using the object element, and embedding [...] [14 Nov 2006]
- Links for October 26, 2006
- Damn it, sometimes multiple tabs are a bad thing. Like when you’ve got two tabs open with the same blog screen and you’re composing a blog entry and hit publish in the wrong tab … and don’t notice until 30 minutes later. So um, this is what the post was supposed to be. Google Code Web Authoring [...] [26 Oct 2006]
- Douglas Crockford on the DOM
- Via the Web Standards Project: Three videos by Douglas Crockford giving some theory on the Document Object Model and how different browsers handle it. It’s a dry presentation. Like the Sahara. Like twice-burnt toast. Like wind in the desert. I think this was an in-house video for Yahoo! developers, and in that context, I can [...] [25 Oct 2006]
