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CSS for designers

June 22nd, 2005 5 Comments

Here’s a question for web designers. It’s a bit of a clich question and I’m not advocating it at all, I’m purely curious.

As a designer, do you think you would find CSS more intuitive if it had been XML based, rather than the syntax they did choose?

I ask because it’s on my mind and I’m [...]

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@media – in (very) brief

June 11th, 2005 5 Comments

I rather luckily got a place at the @media conference in cloudy London yesterday, and had a fantastic time learning more web design from some supremely talented and entertaining speakers.

I will do a full write up, but I need to finish a university assignment first. This post serves as a place to stick comments if [...]

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How to mark up images with captions

January 6th, 2005

In my previous post I included an image with a caption. I struck me that right now in HTML there is no proper way to mark-up captions for images.

Consider a table: this can contain a element. In the forthcoming XHTML 2 specification, caption will be extended for use with the element as well. [...]

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CSS3 Proposal – !required properties and styles

This was posted to the CSS public mailing list (www-style) today.

It’s a proposal for the forthcoming CSS3 specification that would put an end to ‘browser sniffing’ in the future and allow web designers to embrace new and very powerful CSS techniques while more easily providing simpler presentation for older browsers.

It would be a valuble aid, [...]

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Zeldman Presents… Visual Aids

Jeffrey Zeldman recently supplied keynote video for a Web Essentials conference in Australia. Unable to attend, he offers up a short, sweet and highly entertaining presentation on web standards and their influence on today’s internet.

Don’t expect to learn anything much, but if anyone wants to get me any of his “XHTML + CSS + DOM” [...]

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