Thursday, August 26, 2010
Two or more conflicting CSS rules are sometimes applied to the same element. What are the rules in CSS that resolve the question of which style rule will actually be used when a page is rendered by a browser? The answer is, “it’s complicated.” Several factors are involved. I’ll give you a brief explanation of [...]
The W3C has a new validator at validator.w3.org/unicorn they are calling a “unified” validator. Unified because it checks HTML (including HTML5), CSS, and RSS feeds. The validator at validator.nu also checks HTML5, and can be set to check for ARIA roles as well. Introduction to Keyboard Maestro from ATMac has a discount offer good through [...]
From The Access Point, a listing of the most influential women’s voices on the web. ABIE from Access Communications The Access Point is using the post/graphic to bring attention to their new ranking tool, ABIE, that “determines online influence based not only on data from the top ‘ranking’ services out there, but also on factors [...]
Cross-browser CSS box-shadows at Opera Dev shows you how to make it work. Demand for HTML5 Skills on the Rise, Report Says at Web Worker Daily quotes a study showing a 474 percent increase in demand for HTML5 developers at online job posting sites. Are educators working HTML5 into the curriculum? When do you think [...]
Reason is an open source CMS that several colleges have used with success. How Luther College is Using Reason, is a thorough review of its pluses and minuses. Border-radius. Put a number in one of the corner boxes and there you go. Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. Beth Kanter reviews Clay [...]
You know Copyblogger, right? Copyblogger is Brian Clark, the genius writer with a kajillion followers who gives good advice to bloggers about how to get traffic and keep readers coming back. I was playing a game in my head with some of the Copyblogger headlines, thinking that if people who wrote about HTML and CSS [...]
Tech tips, geeky how-tos, thoughtful analysis of issues, news about the latest gadgets, ideas for improving your blog—you’ll find it all in these 10 terrific tech and science blogs. They just happen to be written by women. I. Hacker Chick The Hacker Chick Blog is a beautiful starting point. I say beautiful because the graphics [...]
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There’s a new version of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in the works—CSS3. With this new set of rules for styling your blogs and web pages, you can do things that previously could only be done with images. One bit of magic that you can do with a CSS style rule now is make rounded corners. [...]
Environments for Humans is putting together the 2nd online CSS Summit for July 28. If you are teaching CSS and want to get an intensive (and interactive) training session on CSS3 right at your own desk, I suggest you check this out. I just attended an Environments for Humans (e4h) summit and can testify to [...]
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