14 Oct, 2008
Posted by: pat In: Geekery
It’s exciting to see CSS features supported in a new release of a web browser. According to the Firefox 3.1 beta release notes, these properties are now supported:
Newly supported properties:
text-shadow
box-shadow as -moz-box-shadow
border-image as -moz-border-image
column-rule as -moz-column-rule, -moz-column-rule-width, -moz-column-rule-style, and -moz-column-rule-color
column-gap as -moz-column-gap
word-wrap
Added the custom color value -moz-nativehyperlinktext, which selects the computer’s native hyperlink color.
pre-line as [...]
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25 Apr, 2008
Posted by: pat In: Geekery
I’m working on one of the larger coding projects I’ve ever done and as such, it’s a great time to think about minimizing code wherever possible. The single stylesheet is growing large, and we’re using quite a bit of javascript code. These two things equal performance hit, especially on older computers. One great way to [...]
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08 Apr, 2008
Posted by: pat In: Geekery
It’s CSS Naked Day 2008. Time to expose your naked <body> to the world. What the hell am I talking about?
The idea is to promote Web Standards. Semantic, clean XHTML combined with proper site structure should make a site usable and accessible without relying on CSS. Do you have alt attributes for your images? [...]
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This is a sample of the design I worked on for the portal at Southwestern University, mySouthwestern.
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The Residential Networking site, Resnet, for Southwestern University. I built this site using PHP includes to call common parts of the page: header, footer, etc. The site is written in valid XHTML and uses CSS for all of its layout.
A site built after Hurricane Katrina by a group of volunteers with ties to the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast region. The goal was to match offerings of assistance with those in need.
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