Category: Technical

Technical issues around social media. For the geekier-minded.

Feast for Geeks [en]

A few nice geeky links on the menu for today.

First, Web Standards Project II is live. Check the updated Browser Upgrade Initiative page, and see what the Dreamweaver Task Force has been up to. Stroll around the rest of the site too, there is lots of new stuff hidden everywhere.

Second, the definitive study on sizing text with CSS. See how all these browsers react to your attempts to control the size of your text (screenshots, 264 of them).

Third (and last for today), the CSS1 recommendation, annotated with relevant Mozilla bugs. Yay!

Get a New Browser! [en]

Mozilla 1.0 is out. Run and get it!

Tip: if the Mozilla download page confuses you, scroll down a bit until you see “Mozilla 1.0 – Released June 5, 2002”. Then click the link corresponding to your operating system in the grey box. Save the file to your desktop (or anywhere handy), then double-click to install.

The Vanishing DIV in Mozilla [en]

Having trouble because part of your page doesn’t show up in Mozilla? Using sitemeter, by any chance?

You might be yet another victim of the vanishing div problem, documented by yours truly for the good of all.

CSS Layouts [en]

If you’re still wondering why you should use CSS instead of tables for layout out your pages, you need to read Eric Costello’s excellent Introduction to CSS Layout.

For more information on how to do it (once you’re convinced), you can always check out my stuff – at the risk of repeating myself. Of course, Eric’s article does a pretty good job of explaining that part too, complete with practical examples.

CSS rocks!