The following entries were written in the HTML category:
Almost all the photos in the pictures section now have individual pages describing who appears in the picture, the date and location at which the picture was taken, and the camera used to take the picture.
I feel obligated to state for the record just how much this CSS fix for IE annoys me.
I seem to have fixed part of the redering problem on IE6 for Windows.
I’ve put in a new title image using the LIR CSS method. Tell me what you think, and if it breaks anything.
Yes, yes… I’m still wrangling with some of the MovableType templates so that the archive pages validate as XHTML. They’ll be right soon, I promise….
It was time to do away with that old website, and unleash this new, shiny one.
It blows my mind that any web browser can put up with HTML that is used on the internet. I just looked at the HTML that is spit out of the Wells Fargo online banking, and it’s simply amazing. Obviously…
This is extremely disheartening. Mark bitches about Semantic obsolescence in XHTML 2.0: More specifically, the acronym, cite, and q tags are all gone, leaving us, respectively, with abbr, nothing, and nothing. The acronym/abbr thing just means a global search and…
Heh. Mark Pilgrim: «All right, everybody just calm the fuck down. It’s only a tag. I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition.» I guess that’s what you get when you drop the somewhat obvious use of HTML on unsuspecting masses. While…
Refreshing advice from 1992, Style Guide for Online Hypertext: «Don’t refer in your text to facets of particular browsers. Asking someone to “click here” won’t make sense without a mouse, just as asking someone to “select a link by number”…
Does this page look broken? Words not where they should be? Then get a browser that doesn’t suck! MacOS X users might want to try Chimera, a slim, sleek version of Mozilla….
Suit Over Airlines’ Web Sites Tests Bounds of ADA: “[Southwest Airlines’ Web site is] incompatible with his screen-reader program.”So Gumson and a Miami Beach, Fla.-based disability rights group, Access Now, filed lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Miami in June…
Here’s a good IBM article on website usability, The cranky user: Instant back buttons: “There are several main reasons why a user might abandon a page. Time is one of them; a page that takes longer than a user is…
More CSS goodness: CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit The Layout Reservoir Going to Print Mo’ Betta Rollovers Taming Lists Taming Lists and Going to Print are both highly recommended….
On the issue of HTML and CSS, here are some more links: Dive Into Accessibility: 30 days to a more accessible web site Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2: W3C Specification W3C CSS Validation Service RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and…
Real World Style has some great ideas and information for learning how to use CSS for site layout, style, and appearance. These include various column-based layouts, font suggestions for UNIX based viewing, and Hanging Punctuation….