Some links for light reading (30/10/03)
October 30th, 2003
- SimpleBits has a nice article about accessible image-tab rollovers - a blow-by-blow account
- A detailed article on Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initialisms - what they are, the differences, using CSS with them and more
- An article called: “Bare Bones, No Crap, CSS Text Control Primer” - Very clear basic css concepts
- HTML Dog is all about how to make web pages in the best possible way with HTML and CSS , the most common technologies used in making them
- Floatutorial - Explains the basics of floats as well as tutorials on floating elements such as images, drop caps, next and back buttons, image galleries, inline lists and multi-column layouts.
- Simon Willison’s comment (4) sums up Web Standards in a nutshell
- Following on from Accessifies “List-o-matic”, and Inknoise’s “Layout-o-matic”, comes “CSS border test” - should have been called “Border-o-matic”
- Chris Hester has created a picture of a house using nothing more than CSS - no images.
- Dave Shea has added a a bunch of new entries to CSS Zen Garden - now 123 entries in total - worth revisiting if you haven’t been back for a while…
- Interview with Christopher Schmitt about “Top 10 Reasons to Learn CSS”
- Evan Goer on XHTML doctypes
- Evan Goer on XHTML doctypes
- More on XHTML doctypes
- And even more on XHTML doctypes
- Then there are people who see the other side
- WaSP asks W3C about this issue
- According to Evan Goer, there are only a few websites on the planet who use XHTML correctly (about 45? sites)
- Ryan Dawson - Why there hasn’t been development of IE?
- Simon Willison - Microsoft’s XUL
- Eric Meyer - “I want to think that XAML will be open, interoperable, available for anyone to hook into whether or not they’re a partner or Longhorn developer…”
- A comic book version of tables to webstandards…
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