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I’ve received a few questions about examples from CSS in Ten Minutes. I have now added an online chart with all listings in the book, a downloadable examples zip file and an errata file.
Tags: css, css-in-ten-minutes, book

In December 2005, Google did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. The results are now available - and very interesting:
It seems most pages use presentational attributes: the fourth most used attribute across all elements is the table element’s border […]

Richard Ishida, the Internationalization Activity Lead, and chair and staff contact for the GEO Working Group is coming out to Australia in early February.
Richard will be doing two W3C/Web Standards Group meetings while he is here - Melbourne on February 9 and Canberra on February 10.
Internationalisation is an area that is becoming increasingly important […]

Late last year Roger Hudson, Lisa Miller and I did some research into source order, skip links and structural labels.
The results were presented at Ozewai in December 2005, and the Ozewai podcast was then made available in the WSG site.
Now, the full report has just been released - Source Order, Skip links and Structural labels.
On […]

Some history
A few years ago, when Roger Hudson and I were testing our first full-CSS site, we noticed that blind users found the different content areas of the page hard to define and sometimes confusing.
However, when descriptive headings were added to the page the problem disappeared. We decided to call these headings “structural labels”.
What is […]

No site move would be complete without a glitch or two. For some reason, css.maxdesign.com.au has suddenly disappeared off the face of the earth. Hang in there, it will be back soon.
If it doesn’t come back within the next 12 hours I will start sticking posters up on all the posts in the […]

Failed Redesigns - rather negative but interesting
25 Sites You Shouldn’t Have Missed in 2005
CSS3 Selectors explained
Designing for the web
Interview with Cameron Adams, Man in Blue
First CM Pros Meeting in Sydney (Australia)
What’s your link reputation
Editable access keys
iIR: img Image Replacement
Fixing the back button that AJAX broke
Mini Slide navigation
Swooshy Curly Quotes Without Images
Lightbox JS
Last call - Mobile […]

Late last year, I created a quick site map from a nested list for a client, and forgot to post it up for others to use, lose or abuse as needed. So, here it is - Nested lists used to create a simple folder metaphor.
Tags: css, lists

When the Web Standards Group mail list was created in early 2003, I began been sending posts to the list with webstandards-based links for people to read. For some reason the subject of these posts became “Some links for light reading”. Over the years quite a few people have requested that these posts be placed […]