Posts Tagged ‘markup’

WebKit public build has pretty much passed Acid 3. This is great news. It seems like the fight for browsers to be standards compliant is getting closer and closer to ending. Now let’s see how long it takes IE and FireFox to pass Acid 3…

Yesterday, Microsoft released some great news about the future of IE8.  You all should really read it for yourself ASAP. Here is a good excerpt to give you the just:
“Our initial thinking for IE8 involved showing pages requesting “Standards” mode in an IE7’s “Standards” mode, and requiring developers to ask for IE8’s actual “Standards” mode separately. We [...]

So, I was reading through the new tutorial over at cssglobe.com, Pure CSS Data Chart.  As with most tutorials, I considered how I could add my own twist to the example.  And the obvious thought came up, add javascript.  Now, I know that this will immediately take us from the “Pure CSS” part of it all, but [...]

In part one, we went over making a CSS button with rounded corners. Our button also expanded (stretched) vertically with content, and only used one image for the static and hover states. Now, you wouldn’t know this by the amount of comments on the article, but it has generated a lot of traffic. [...]

I’m a big fan of using background images effectively AND efficiently. I emphasize AND because you could argue a background image is effective if it looks correct, despite the fact that you could have also made it more efficient. Such as cutting a vertical gradient and applying a ‘repeat-x’ to it. [...]