Archive for ‘Web Design’
Jul 11
2006
A List Apart: Issue 219
There are two new articles at A List Apart this morning. While both are a bit more on the experimental side, they both are definitely interesting concepts and worth the time to take a serious look at. Bye, Bye <embed> offers up another alternative to embedding flash, quicktime movies and more without the need for [...]
Jun 26
2006
HÃ¥kon Responds to Questions About CSS and…
HÃ¥kon Wium Lie responds to moderated questions over at Slashdot. Topics range from the W3C development speed to browser compatability with CSS features. Visit Site
Jun 20
2006
A List Apart: Issue 218
The most recent issue of A List Apart has three great articles ranging from topics about separating behavior from your markup to building the right sized design team for your needs. In Behavioral Separation Jeremy Keith discusses why it’s important to separate behavior from your markup. He even goes back to an article he previously [...]
Jun 09
2006
Multi-Safari
On the heals of news that, with some effort, you can get IE6 to run on Mac OS X, comes word that you can now run multiple versions of Safari. These special versions of Safari use the original Web Kit framework that came with them, bundled inside the application. They will mimic original Safari rendering [...]
Jun 08
2006
Run IE6 on OS X
For those Mac users out there, this may be of interest to you. It’s a method for running Windows IE6 on your Mac without having to reboot in Virtual Machine or buy yourself a cheap PC for testing purposes. It doesn’t look like a super easy process, but it may be worth the work. Visit [...]
May 11
2006
Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS
The folks behind the the open source Yahoo! UI Library have jut released a pretty nice suite of CSS templates entitled “Grids CSS.” The set of files allows for the ability to produce over one hundred page layouts with just a few files. Here is a full list of the templates’ features: Full A-grade browser [...]
May 09
2006
A List Apart: Issue 216
There are a fresh pair of articles over at A List Apart: The Four-Day Week Challenge and Calling All Designers: Learn to Write! In the first article, Ryan Carson theorizes about the reasons you may be so stressed out about getting your increasing amount of work done and has an interesting solution that he is [...]
Apr 27
2006
PlotKit – Javascript Chart Plotting
Via a link on Simon Willison’s site we have a great JavaScript library for dynamically plotting graphs and charts. It has support for HTML canvas and Adobe’s SVG Viewer. The demos look super clean and the tutorial seems easy enough to follow. For those of you out there that need to show data in your [...]
Apr 25
2006
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2
The IE Team has announced the release of IE7 beta 2. According to the announcement this is not a second preview (or an update to the preview), but a real “beta 2″ implementation of the new browser. Download it and check it out. Visit Site
Apr 25
2006
ThickBox – One Box to Rule Them All
By now there are several variations of the Lightbox technique — each with their own added benefits and styles. Cody Lindley has offered up another alternative. In his own words: File size! File size! File size! Prototype & Scriptaculous can add upwards of 100k to a page unless you gzip the js files. I simply [...]