Andy Clarke has a new solution for dealing with IE6 incompatibilities - Universal IE 6 CSS. The idea is to serve simple design with great typography for IE 6, without layout. The Web developer community is trying various approaches to get rid of IE6. [Continue]
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img Or background-image?
How do you decide whether an image should be included as a img element or a background image? As Chris Heilmann explains, if the image is content, it better be part of the markup with img and alternative text. With background images, you have to ensure something else - that a corresponding background colour is seen when images are disabled, otherwise the site is rendered unreadable.
Use HSS To Use Variables In CSS
Nicolas Cannasse has gone ahead and added variables to CSS. There have been efforts earlier to improve CSS, like CleverCSS and Sass. However, by adding variables Nicolas has perhaps lightened the argument of non-semantic CSS names in CSS frameworks. [Continue]
Using JavaScript To Detect CSS Support
Progressive Enhancement is one of the key ways of ensuring accessibility. However, it has been commonly known to be applied to using JavaScript. John Resig explains a method, called Progressive CSS Enhancement. [Continue]
W3C v/s Developer Community
W3C again finds itself fighting the Web designer and developer community. It seems to have started from Andy Clarke’s call for reorganizing the CSS Working Group. Andy raises a concern that browser vendors, which compete with each other, will act in good interest of collaboratively developing the new CSS standard. [Continue]
Acid2 And Browsers
Acid2 is a nice way to test the standards compliance of a browser. What is not nice is that most of the popular browsers did not pass it. Surprisingly, this is changing fast. [Continue]
Reusability And Non-semantic Names
Recently, a lot has been said about CSS frameworks and non-semantic names. It is quite true that a CSS framework like Blueprint or YUI Grids gives you non-semantic names. I am not even going to venture into whether it is good or bad, this seems to be a subjective topic. [Continue]
Blueprint - A CSS Framework
It was about time! With so many good CSS developers keeping chunks of code aside to be reused across projects, a framework was imminent. Olav Bjørkøy takes the credit for building the first one - Blueprint. [Continue]
Stripped Off
Answering to the call for CSS Naked Day (via Lorelle), this blog is stripped of its design. You can see underneath the hood, something that is seen by the search engines day in and day out. An interesting observation was that, when I renamed the style.css to something else, Wordpress picked up the default style. [Continue]
Rationale Behind The Current Design
So finally do get time to explain some rationale behind the current design. I would like to clarify that I am not a Web designer, that is, professionally. I am a software programmer, who understands the elements of design, or maybe still trying to. [Continue]
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