Post Archive

› March 24, 2004

Structured Tables.

So you have tabular data you need to display. You probably want to take a look at this excellent article on making your table well-structured and accessible.

› March 20, 2004

a heap of links

I haven't posted in a while (new baby and all). Could I make it up to you with a link dump? Apologies if you have seen some of these before.

SWSW stuff:
Hi-Fi Design with CSS, Douglas Bowman
Hi-Fi Design with CSS, Dave Shea
CSS: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
Accessible Tabs With CSS

Other stuff:
Interview with Douglas Bowman
High Accessibility, High Design - CSS to the rescue
Quick Quiz: H1's and Logos
I don't care about accessibility
Spooky girlfriend (Via ETC)
The Myth of CSS (try saying that fast)
The Myth of CSS - Anne van Kesteren's response
W3C Semantic data extractor (my new favourite toy)

› March 16, 2004

Commander! Norse ships have been sighted off the coast!

Oh yes. The Norse are coming, their fleet is collected and preparing for invasion. Their viking longships have gotten a major overhaul, and can now meet your ironclad steamboats in both maneuverability, speed and seaworthiness. They have been sharpening their weapons and making shrewd plans for their raids, and are set on taking back the land they discovered several hundred years before Christopher Columbus first set his foot on a ship deck. Californians beware, you are their first target!

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More Markdown

Mr. Gruber has continued on with his Markdown offering. The documentation has been greatly updated. One of the key differentiators (works much like how you would style up a plain text email, and is super readable even in raw form), is now clearer.

So, that's great. Maybe you like this way of text formatting more or less or equal to other systems such as textile. You know, whatever.

But now let's say you wanted to incorporate Markdown, which is a Perl script, into your PHP based site? No need to ponder - Mr. Gruber has given you the keys to the castle in this recent post to the Markdown mailing list.

› March 10, 2004

Markdown

A brilliantly named text based formatting tool from Mr. Gruber, Markdown is definitely worth your time, go check it out. It's robust, free for personal use, and pennies on the dollar for commercial integration. Since this site uses MT extensively, we might be very well suited to work something like this into the comment form. It's native MT use though, is as a plug-in where it's integrated into the interface itself for purpose of formatting your posts.

Code is food

Matthew Mullenweg from Photomatt writes: "All morning I've struggled trying to think of an analogy that captures the essence of what is going on here. It became more obvious to me that HTML and CSS code and the health of the web has many parallels to the food you eat and the health of your body."

A great article in why good code is important - Code is food.

Mimic the iFrame with CSS

Nigel Goodfellow has a good, easy-to-read article on creating stylish overflows using CSS. So if you want to mimic an iframe, here is a place that will help you walk through it in an easy-to-read and helpful manner.

› March 6, 2004

IE7 - towards better standards support in IE

Similar to Peter Nederlof's solution for enabling :hover on non-links in Internet Explorer, there is Dean Edwards's IE7 project.

IE7 invokes a DHTML behavior to load and parse all style sheets into a form that Explorer can understand. You can then use most CSS2 selectors without having to resort to CSS hacks.

His list of selectors and attributes supported is impressive: among others, abbr, :first-child, [attr="value"], :hover,... Only in alpha, but already impressive.

Via KU.

› March 4, 2004

Technicolor web colour designer

Cameron Adams, The Man in Blue says of his new color tool: "Technicolor not only gives you some colour combinations to try out on people with atypical monochromatism, but it also allows you to paint a web page in your chosen psychedelic mood!"

› March 3, 2004

StyleMaster CSS page layout Tutorial

A new CSS page layout tutorial from Maxine Sherrin shows how to build a page layout from start to finish. Includes a short intro to CSS, setting up your first style sheet, class selectors, descendent selectors, styling links, creative use of images and styling navbars. Includes specific information for users of Style Master, but still great for anyone getting into CSS. The finished result.