Archived posts, August 2003
Standards, semantics and old habits
Lately several people have written about how many people who learned HTML a few years ago have problems accepting that…
Apple to join the web standards race
Douglas Bowman of Stopdesign and Jeffrey Zeldman of Happy Cog Studios are going to help Apple Computer make their web…
Macintosh Browser Smackdown
Macintosh Browser Smackdown at Ars technica is a great overview of the many browser choices available for Mac OS X….
Things to read
As a reminder to myself, here is a bunch of links to things that I want to mention. I’ll get…
Preload-free CSS rollovers
Petr Stanicek has come up with a brilliant way of creating a CSS based rollover effect. By using a single…
More CSS Tabs
I’ve written a bit about CSS based tabs here lately. I started looking into tabs when a client wanted them…
CSS Photo Zoom
Dan Cederholm posted CSS Photo Zoom, a neat way of showing an enlarged view of an image. In the comments…
Link flood again
Whoops. Looks like it’s time to clean out my folder of links. I may come back to one or two…
CSS Frames
After taking a close look at Simon Jessey’s fixed sidebars and Eric Bednarz’s position:fixed; fixed for IE5(+)/win I created an…
Beauty
I like clean, minimalist design. Dirk Hesse has built a site that really appeals to me. No nonsense. No extras….
Gorilla Mozilla
D. Keith Robinson’s Gorilla Web Tip number six tells you why you should switch from whatever web browser you are…
A Second Voice
Dave Shea has added a new section to mezzoblue called ”A Second Voice”: Web design is fragmented. Different specialties exist…
URL science
If you’re at all interested in making the URLs of your site (or your clients’ sites) more user friendly and…
FIR updated
In a post to the css-discuss mailing list, Levin Alexander presented a FIR variant that shows the alternative text if…
RSS
This site now has an RSS 2.0 feed. Like everything else here, it’s coded by hand. This is my first…
CSS Tabs
While working on a project at my daytime job I needed to find a good way of using CSS to…
Link flood
There is now a page called Progressive enhancement using CSS at the css-discuss Wiki. Simon Willison has written a bit…
Zeldman slides
Jeffrey Zeldman has made the slides used for his Web Design World keynote on designing with web standards and presentation…
Image replacement techniques
Two new ways of using CSS to replace the text of a header (or any other element) with an image…
Complex CSS layout
At Position Is Everything, Holly Bergevin’s guest demo, Perched Upon a Lily Pad, shows how complex a CSS layout can…
Usability problems
Adam Kalsey takes a look at some of the usability problems of the California State Fair site. I’ll add that…
Inaccessible Website
The Disability Rights Commission has a nice demonstration (Flash required) of what persons with different disabilities are up against when…
Making a case for standards and accessibility
A common hurdle on the way towards a modern, standards compliant web site is making management, designers and clients understand…
Macromedia and Accessibility
Macromedia Flash has been criticized a lot for producing inaccessible content. Not being particularly interested in Flash I haven’t really…
Before: Tag Soup. After: CSS Clutter
In From Tag Soup to CSS Clutter, Martijn ten Napel talks about how browser specific hacks have moved from HTML…
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