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XHTML

Raising the CSS B.R.A.T.

July 17, 2006

CSS B.R.A.T. is a great idea, but one that should be seriously thought about before implemented. For those Web folks responsible for supporting intranets, having to wrangle many editors, this is a great tool, but it should be avoided for anything that faces the public. The implementation could inflict much more harm on the presentation [...]

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Eliminating the IE duplication bug

May 30, 2006

This site demonstrates a few ways to eliminate the duplicate characters bug, which is one of the most annoying issues in IE 6. The bug causes the last character(s) within a float to appear twice, the second instance being outside the float itself. This issue has stolen many hours of my life and caused more [...]

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Mmmm Code Snippets

May 8, 2006

Code Snippets is an online resource, providing a central user-writable repository for chunks of reusable code. A stroll through the language-agnostic site provides a plethora of tasty bits and bytes from many programming languages and frameworks. Each snippet can be tagged and each tag can be followed via RSS. Users can comment on snippets as [...]

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Efficient WebDev Tip

April 3, 2006

The post Write Stylesheets Simultaneously has a great tip for easing the initial development of a new site. Instead of manually reloading your browser each time you want to view your changes to your markup or CSS, throw a simple meta refresh into the HEAD so the page will reload automatically every N seconds. A [...]

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Anatomy of a Document

December 5, 2005

Anatomy of a Document – “deconstructed, annotated XHTML document for your education and enjoyment.”

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Collapsible Menus

October 15, 2005

I have implemented pureDOMexplorer (pde) in the sidebar to clean up the navigation a bit. It sits upon a foundation of accessible, XHTML-compliant unordered lists and uses unobtrusive JavaScript to toggle the visibility of sub-categories. It was extremely easy to implement and saved me a ton of time. I really wasn’t looking forward to writing [...]

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IE 7 + IE Hacks = Breakage

October 13, 2005

As expected, the introduction of IE 7 will wreak havoc on those sites that utilize CSS hacks to serve up different styles to IE browsers. The IE development team is urging developers to clean up their hacks. They recommend the use of conditional comments, but I lean to using server-side code to detect and serve [...]

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XHTML Character Entity Reference

September 27, 2005

XHTML Character Entity Reference

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Tables and Dogma

April 7, 2005

Dave Shea has written a great post about his misunderstanding of when to use (or not use) tables in his post Too Far. For those of you unfamiliar with Dave, he has provided a wealth of information and tools to the Web community (in addition to the CSS Zen Garden, and his book, The Zen [...]

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Abbreviations are a Breeze

March 26, 2005

Juicy Studio: Abbreviations are a Breeze – A lengthy, and impressive post describing the differences and proper use of abbreviations and acronyms, with an eye toward correct markup.

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