Category: CSS

The latest version of the Firefox browser is due for release in the near future, and the nightly and beta versions I’ve been testing show that it’s taking a big step forward from its predecessor. As well as the many usability and performance enhancements, there are a whole host of improvements to the engine; mainly […]

When learning CSS I relied heavily on Index Dot Css, a comprehensive guide to CSS support in browsers. It’s still very useful, although sadly not updated since October 2003. After that I turned to W3Schools CSS Reference (when I didn’t have my copy of the CSS Pocket Reference to hand); it’s nicely laid out and […]

Happy New Year to all! After a nice long break over Christmas and the New Year, in which I wrote not a single line of code, I’m now back in the swing of things and looking forward to all the desktop browser goodness to come this year.
I’m pleased to have my first piece of published work […]

Well, Opera’s antitrust complaint against Microsoft certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons.
Developers came out on both sides of the issue; Andy Clarke called for the CSS Working Group to be disbanded, which had Daniel Glazman up in arms. David Baron wasn’t a fan of the idea either.
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There’s an interesting post on warpspire.com at the moment, decrying the speed of implementation for HTML 5 and CSS 3 and suggesting Flash/AIR as a better alternative. I completely disagree with it, but it’s interesting nonetheless. HTML 5 in particular comes in for heavy criticism as it’s preceived that its adoption will take too long.
But, as […]

I’ve been doing a bit of thinking recently.
I’ve been thinking about HTML 5 and the new semantic sectioning elements it proposes to introduce: header, footer, section, article, nav and aside.
I’ve also been thinking about the way microformats use data format standards and reserved class and id values to organise content.
Then thinking about this 2005 research into reused class […]