Archived posts, October 2003

CSS Frames updated

Today I checked my CSS Frames demo in IE5/Win for the first time. I discovered that things were a bit broken. Hrmm. Ooops. What I thought …

Posted on October 1, 2003 in CSS

When you’re trying to come up with a good way of solving a design problem looking at how others have done is often very useful. While work…

Posted on October 2, 2003 in Web General, Usability

I added another demo page to my Lab section. Soft dropshadow uses background images to create a dropshadow effect. The code is pretty simp…

Posted on October 4, 2003 in CSS

Mid Pass Filter is a new CSS hack by Tantek Çelik. This hack is a filter that targets only version 5.x Internet Explorer for Windows brows…

Posted on October 11, 2003 in CSS

Patrick Griffiths recently launched HTML Dog, a collection of resources and guides, with the ambition to help people learn standards compl…

Posted on October 13, 2003 in Web Standards, (X)HTML

Floatutorial is an excellent guide to floating elements. Understanding how floats work and how they can be used can be a bit confusing, so…

Posted on October 15, 2003 in CSS

While reading about search engine optimization I’ve seen references to the Apache module mod_rewrite more than a few times. The idea is to…

A List Apart version 3.0 has been launched. Very nice to see ALA back in action. Issue 160 contains three excellent articles: Facts and Op…

Posted on October 22, 2003 in CSS, Accessibility, Web General

Friday night Apple released Mac OS X 10.3, a.k.a. Panther. A great new version with loads of improvements. I don’t normally write about op…

Posted on October 26, 2003 in Browsers

Next time you’re styling a border with CSS, try something new. Instead of going from your editor of choice to your browser and back in a l…

Posted on October 26, 2003 in CSS

Last week, when A List Apart was relaunched, my favourite article was Doug Bowman’s Sliding Doors of CSS. This week’s ALA brings us Slidin…

Posted on October 31, 2003 in CSS