Monthly Archives: October 2005

How I Spent My Weekend

My plan was simply to work on the primary navigation tab set. I also needed to do some prep for the weekly Web standards workshop today. But you know me…once I get started, it’s hard to stop. I just couldn’t help myself. I took a break on Saturday to help my brother move some furniture [...]

Molly Labels

Molly has come up with a set of Web Design and Development Personality Indicators. I’d say I’m a SASS/SACE hybrid with one foot in the real world and the idealistic belief that comprimises never have to come at the expense of the user. Anyone who has worked with me would probably agree.

Cleanup on IE 7

Markus Mielke issues a Call to action: The demise of CSS hacks and broken pages. Time to get busy. Start moving all those IE specific hacks into conditional comments. Update There certainly isn’t any reason to panic right now. While conditional comments are a great way to segregate IE specific CSS, it’s not an emergency [...]

Simply Accessible

Derek Featherstone has created a great resource called Simply Accesible which is based on his recent presentation at Web Essentials 05, in Sydney, Australia. Derek has some great new thoughts on the design and authoring of accessible forms. I’m particularly excited about the idea of grouping all required form fields in their own “required” fieldset, [...]

Let’s Get Specificity

Andy Clarke breaks down CSS specificity for the Star Wars kid in all of us. Molly provides clarification and points out the differences between CSS 2 and CSS 2.1 specificity.