Links tagged with “html”
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Fujinon Binoculars
View Source. Scroll down. The HTML is something else. (via Haddock)
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The 1KB CSS Grid by Tyler Tate :: A simple, lightweight approach
As simple as a grid-based CSS framework thing could be. (via Infovore)
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Styling buttons to look like links | Natalie Downe
For the very few occasions when you want to make a submit button look like a standard link. Not that you should. (via Simon Willison)
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Bits & Pixels – Blog Archive – Cross-browser transparent columns
How to make the background of a block semi-transparent but have the content opaque. Bit of a palaver, but it works.
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Stu Nicholls | CSSplay | A css only dropdown menu
Sounds good but haven’t explored it thoroughly.
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When can I use…
“Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies.” A lot of waiting involved. (via Dotcode)
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Recreating the button | stopdesign
Doug Bowman on how buttons were developed on Google apps. Good HTML/CSS cleverness. (via Simon Willison)
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Why HTML
More recent arguments for why to use HTML rather than XHTML. (via Simon Willison)
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A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards
Lovely CSS bar charts and sparklines created in HTML and CSS.
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Dompdf - The PHP 5 HTML to PDF Converter
Uses CSS rules to style the PDF output I think (can’t get the demo to work…).
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DebugBar - IE extension for web developer : DOM inspector, Javascript debugger, HTTP headers viewer, Cookies viewer
Looks handy for those times one has to painfully test things in Internet Explorer. (via Simon Willison)
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Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM // ShaunInman.com
File input fields are stubbornly resistant to beautifying. A new way to make them pretty. (via Daring Fireball)
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Blueprintcss - Google Code
In-progress CSS framework for constructing grid-based web page layouts. (via Daring Fireball)
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Infovore » The CSS Redundancy Checker
Checks your CSS file for all the selectors that aren’t used in the list of HTML files or URLs you feed it. Clever Tom.
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Introducing templatemaker | Holovaty.com
Python thing. Point it at some HTML files and it will make a template with holes for the unique strings in the pages. (via Daring Fireball)
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Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful
Apparently definitive version of why mindlessly doing sites as XHTML is wrong. (via Dotcode)
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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : E-mail is not a platform for design
On why non-HTML email is still the way to go. Would be good to have some more facts and figures for ammunition when needed… (via Daring Fireball)
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Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element
Very handy alternative to Submit buttons, and I feel I should have already known this, but it appears to have problems in IE. Like most things. (via Kottke)
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MTV Labs: The New HTML MTV.com
MTV.com has ditched its Flash site for an HTML version after user feedback. (via Blackbeltjones over Twitter)
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Usable Cross Browser Font Sizing » Middleware Infrastructure
Magic percentages for getting the same font size on different platforms.
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Layout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!
What the title says. Very handy. (via Rodcorp)
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Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Understanding HTML, XML and XHTML
Why you (and I) should probably be using HTML 4 rather than XHTML. Oops. (via Daring Fireball)
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SIMILE | Timeline | Documentation
DHTML thing for creating nice scrollable timelines. (via Yoz)
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Web Development with… Safari : journal : hicksdesign Ο°
If you download a WebKit nightly build there’s a handy inspector for debugging CSS problems in Safari.
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Vitamin Features » HTML Emails - Taming the Beast
For future reference. Although I really hope I never ever need it (via Plasticbag).
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Aplus :: z-pos
Detailed exploration of an Internet Explorer CSS z-index bug. It saved my sanity last week.
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ColorMatch 5K :: the original
complicated colour scheme generator (crashed my browser once though)
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Color Blender
Eric Meyer’s nifty colour blender
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Overview : Xyle scope : Cultured Code
Rather smart HTML- and CSS-examining application for the Mac. Looks complicated, but I imagine it could be invaluable over time.
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[thelist] XHTML 1.0 Strict -no target attribute allowed?
Almost needed this, might need it again.
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New-Window Links in a Standards-Compliant World [HTML & XHTML Tutorials]
Almost needed this, might need it again.
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The Man in Blue > footerStickAlt: A more robust method of positioning a footer
An even newer way of getting a footer to stick to the bottom of the viewport or the content.
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Slashdot | DHTML Utopia
Review of a book on “Modern web design using JavaScript and DOM”. Ajax and stuff. Sounds good.
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Super simple clearing floats - Anne’s Weblog about Markup & Style
A remarkably non-hacky way to get containing divs to expand to the full depth of their floated descendants (ie, goodbye “clear:both” elements?). (via Tim)
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Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours
More Ajaxy stuff to investigate when time allows.
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As simple as possible, but no simpler: Mapping Google
Roughly how the client-side of Google Maps works.
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S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System
Spent ages trying to find this a while back when I couldn’t remember the name. Now I have you.
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The perils of using XHTML properly | 456 Berea Street
Things to watch out for when doing stuff in XHTML.
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Mezzoblue - DHTML ‘05
Benefits and drawbacks of Map.Search.ch’s impressive DHTML map of Switzerland which uses XMLHttpRequest a la Google Suggest.
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Boing Boing: Full-back HTML tattoo
If you were going to go to all that trouble why not use CSS rather than duff ‘align’ tags? Not man enough to take the extra characters?
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Mike Davidson: Introducing sIFR: The Healthy Alternative to Browser Text
Replacing HTML text with Flash-rendered text just to make it look prettier seems like precious designer overkill to me. But it’s very clever and it does work.
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Creating accessible forms
Clear, simple, everything you need to know.
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Indispensable web development bookmarklets
Not new, but I lost the link.