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Browser Suite For Developers

Monday, July 2nd, 2007 | 16 Comments

This post is a list of browsers that are good to have installed for testing web sites while developing, including a brief information and download links to major versions. There are a lot of more browsers available, but most of them uses the same core as the major ones. I also posted some info about installing multiple versions which is necessary in most cases to be backwards compatible. I have listed mac OS X first and windows later, and all browsers are sorted by popularity.

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HTML5 versus HTML4

Friday, June 22nd, 2007 | No Comments

Anne van Kesteren har written a great article at W3C about what differences we might expect between HTML4 and the new HTML5. The read is easy to adapt and Anne explains in plain text what elements are new and how they differ from previous versions.

Besides all the new semantic elements that will be introduced, such as <nav>, <dialog> and <footer>, there are some other interesting new things to be prepared for:

  • The div and li element that today can contain both inline and block.level content thanks to it’s flow definition in the doctype, will only be allowed to contain one of them in the future (but you can still nest inline elements inside a block).
  • The i element will not be deprecated, but instead represent span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose. It will still be italicized and will probably still be misused by authors.
  • The Doctype will no longer require a reference to a DTD. <!DOCTYPE html> is enough.

Ther are a lot more to digest in the post so make sure you read it.

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Lightweight Image Gallery with Thumbnails

Friday, June 15th, 2007 | 312 Comments

Update: check out Galleria - another javascript gallery that can do even more.

Showing images online is a big thing. Besides elementary stuff like flickr, there are a vast number of image gallery scripts available online. Some are free and some cost a little. Some are really good and some are terrible. Some of the biggest flaws with the existing ones are that they either require flash, server-side scripting or a heavy javascript source. And the ones that uses pure javascript are rarely degradable and don’t include thumbnails. So here is another one.

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Scalable CSS Buttons Using PNG and Background Colors

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 | 547 Comments

colorful buttonsThere has been a lot of talk about CSS buttons lately. Very understandable, since there are a lot of web applications being developed today that could benefit from slick looking buttons without loss in accessibility. Before jumping on the train myself, I just want to emphasize that you should not use this technique to replace real form buttons unless you know what you are doing. That said, the script I am providing to this article can create the same stylish buttons out of boring input buttons as well as plain anchors.

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Do We Really Need Blockquotes in HTML?

Saturday, May 19th, 2007 | 2 Comments

In HTML, you can mark quotes in two different ways: using <q> or <blockquote>. They both carry the same attribute definitions (cite, etc) and they are both intended to mark up quotations in HTML documents.

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