Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Bulletproof HTML
Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup gives tons of answers to some of the more technical aspects of HTML - validation, encoding, and writing semantic markup.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Cross Browser Custom Scrollbars
If you want to replace the ugly default OS scrollbars fixed width and/or height boxes in your CSS layout with custom scrollbars, fleXcroll is definitely the way to go. I also tried jScrollPane, but found fleXcroll simpler to implement. Also, Safari 3.1 did some very strange things with jScrollPane - the scrollbar placement was off, and the overflow: auto; property seemed to be ignored. (This was one of the most compelling reasons for me to go with fleXcroll - the website project I am using this for has a fairly high percentage of Mac users.)
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007
How to make YouTube embeds XHTML 1.0 Strict
How to make embedded YouTube video conform to the XHTML 1.0 Strict Doctype
Look at how much shorter the XHTML 1.0 Strict version is than the one YouTube gives!
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
IE 6 Funeral
As far as I’m concerned, it can’t happen soon enough.
IE 7 has been out for about a year, and the machines at the college I’m at are still running IE 6. I guess I have to wait for the next version of IE to come out before I can safely drop support for IE 6…
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Linux Color Scheme Designer
While browsing Synaptic in Ubuntu, I found a neat little app called Agave.
It is a very simple little color scheme tool for the Gnome desktop. I don't do web design work in Ubuntu because I prefer using Fireworks for page comps, but it is still an interesting app to play with. The only thing I would change would be to include a broader palette than web safe colors.
