Category: html

• "HTML5" versus Flash: Animation Benchmarking 22 March 2010

  I've written before about why you shouldn't let your current toolset dictate what it is you create and I still firmly hold to that mantra. Some of my more recent work has ...

• Win a copy of Web Standards Creativity or The Art & Science of CSS 26 April 2007

  There's only so many copies of my books that I can give to my parents, so what am I to do with the remaining free copies I get from the publisher? Well, I could stack them on top of one another and use them to make ...

• CSS Love Child 24 April 2006

  I'm usually all about creating conflict . So, I thought it's high time that I add some love to the Internet. On Late Night with Conan O'Brien he loves playing a game where they ...

• Resolution dependent layout update 19 January 2006

  » Change CSS layout according to browser width « After Dave Shea ran into a spot of trouble integrating my rather experimental resolution dependent layout script ...

• footerStickAlt: A more robust method of positioning a footer 29 August 2005

  » footerStickAlt « Updated: 4:40PM, 29 August 2005 (See comment #6 ) Recently I've been asked to code up a few sites that require the Web page footer to ...

• Who cares about validation? 14 October 2004

  Mike's rather altruistic article about his efforts on the re-design of ABC News sparked Ethan's commentary about validation , which set Keith off about Web Standards zealotry and 73 ...

• What's your favourite blip? 11 October 2004

  The default is "-". The one I most use is ">". One of the weird ones is "§". It's that little marker/divider/blip that appears in the title of most web pages. On the homepages of ...

• Resolution dependent layout 21 September 2004

  » Varying layout according to browser width « Updated: 19 January 2006 (See the new entry for details) A few weeks ago I thought that I might try out ...

• Mapping DTDs: making validation usable 21 May 2004

  » DTD Mapper « One of the qualms people have with validating pages is that they never know what they're validating from. The W3C releases documents called Document Type ...

• Lift & separate 15 April 2004

  It's an oft-quoted advantage of CSS that you can totally change the look of a site without laying a hand on the HTML source; something which Dave Shea fully exploited whilst cultivating his Garden. But when it ...

• Accessible, stylish form layout 24 March 2004

  » Form layout templates « Yes, HTML forms are the worst things known to web designers. Yes, HTML forms have to be accessible and usable. No, HTML forms do not have to be an ...

• SSCrabble 27 January 2004

  » SSCrabble « (full SOWPODS dictionary) » Offline SSCrabble « (284kB ZIP) I think that I might go a bit overboard sometimes. It ...

• When the war is over 24 January 2004

  Most of the sites I visit regularly at the moment are Web Standards related. And already, as more people get with the program and we develop a useful pool of tips, tricks and templates, I'm beginning to find myself ...

• Web page liquidation 22 December 2003

  » True liquid web page example « After reading the explosion in debate over fixed-width versus "liquid" web pages in the web design community of late ( -1- | -2- | ...

• And the winner is ... 15 December 2003

  If you want to eat up a lot of bandwidth and time, it's always fun to go to some of the high profile web site awards sites and click on this week's winners. ( FWA , Ultrashock ) You'll be ...

• Pest control 10 December 2003

  After all the useful feedback I received from people regarding the rendering of this site in various browsers, I entered bug-fix overdrive during the past couple of days and am now pleased to say that this site ...