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Drew and Brian did a fantastic job last December with their organisation and editorial skills for the annual magazine 24ways. I was very honoured to be asked again to contribute to the 2007 issue.
Natalie Downe sets the presses rolling with an in-depth look at the state of print stylesheets in 2007. Often neglected by developers [...]
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As part of CSS Naked day this site is going CSS nude for today only! I encourage you to do the same. Go on … show off your <body>!
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In response to PPK’s 24 ways article I thought I should describe the method I currently choose employ to hide elements onload. I have gone through this briefly in my article ‘releasing the permalink slideshow‘. As PPK mentioned, it is important to hide elements not needed for browsers that don’t support JavaScript. The most important [...]
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Recently at work I came across a particularly tricky IE bug that I have seen a couple times now. I thought I would share the solution since it wasn’t immediately obvious.
On the new Business in the community site (just launched by Torchbox) there is a timeline facility to show information about different events in Business, [...]
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Inspired by the comments on my last entry I decided to try out their techniques with some multiple paragraphs. Since my technique was only ever aimed at single quotes, I welcome the new suggestions.
I really love the display: list-item idea that Pete Lambert but I have been avoiding last-child because of browser compatibility issues.
First I [...]
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I have been meaning to write about this technique for some time now. The aim is a block quote looking something like this, with speech marks at the front and termination of the text but without the nastiness of inline images.
To be a valid blockquote there must be an inner block level containing element such [...]
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