What a bloomin’ marvellous idea. On CSS naked day (9th April this year), you might notice a lot of websites loose thier styling. It’s the brain child of Dustin Diaz, and it’s aim is to help us all to write more semantic (X)HTML. By considering the design with no CSS, it forces us to write better and better structured markup. Will you be joining in this year?
Flash and the z-index problem, solved
I was always told that Flash would render on top of everything else. That’s it. There’s no way around it. It meant that whenever I had a design using, say, suckerfish menus, I’d have to be careful to ensure that there was enough space below the menu to accommodate for Flash’s nasty little habit. It turns out that the notorious they were wrong. Again. It’s amazing just how many times ‘they’ don’t get it quote right, and that the majority of people still believe them.
Progressive enhancement with CSS3
This rather good tutorial explains how to create brilliant 2.0-esque buttons using only text and CSS – NO IMAGES. It shows you how to take advantage of the slow emergence of browsers which understand CSS3 properties such as border radius and the like. Even if you’re not going to use this method, it’s a useful [...]
Better, faster and more robust rollovers with CSS sprites
Learn how to create faster, standards compliant, javascript-less and accessible buttons using only CSS. Even the most hard-core of javascript programmers will admit that actually, they might have done this by mistake. And I promise to show you how, and if you’re lucky explain why.
I’ll even tell you what a sprite is.
Seperating HTML, CSS and Javascript – unobtrusive javascript
So with all of this web 2.0 hype you want to add in loads of cool CSS behaviours, javascript wotsits and AJAX wangdoodles to your website. But then you’re told that you have to keep the (X)HTML clean. ‘What the?!!’ you may ask. Read on to find out how the voodoo is done.
