March 11, 2006
Most web-developers know that IE has fallen behind in the race for standards and being able to show the latest and greatest. Many CSS2 properties are unsupported. Some of the more useful ones, are properties such as max-width, max-height, min-width and finally min-height. I will argue, how max-width is a crucial property, when it comes to on line readability, and then I will show you how to make IE emulate the behavior of max-width, and in turn, how to make it emulate many other properties that Internet Explorer for Windows is not directly capable of.
Eric explains why in CSS, the property line-height, can accept unitless number values. You can also give line-height united values, though generally you shouldn’t. But unitless numbers are just fine for this property.
Chatr is a chatroom on your site. It’s a set of php scripts and some javascript to create an AJAX/php chatroom with php as the only server requirement. Installation aims to be simple, limited to dropping the scripts in a folder on your server, visiting install.php and testing it out.
This Italian site gives some examples on how to get an AJAX status bar up and running on your site. The tutorial is not in english, so you will have to run it through a translator first.
Another css gallery site for some daily inspiration. Design Shack offers regular examples of great CSS, standards based design to help inspire and create. We feature any website which shows off some flair, and doesn’t fit into the standard pattern we come to expect from CSS design.
A easy guide to creating background hovers over entire paragraphs of text using lists.
CSS sprites allow you to create a single file that contains all the images laid out in a grid, requiring only a single image and only a single server call. Jason Cranford Teague shows you how to tame your Web site graphics using CSS sprites to consolidate images into a single file.
March 9, 2006
A drop-down, cascading menu using JUST css, no javascript or IE behaviors, that works in IE, Firefox and Opera, uses just one menu and passes w3c validation without messing with the !doctype.
