Tag: browser wars
IE7 only: float bug on elements with italic, background properties
Setting font-style:italic in your CSS for elements in the vicinity of a floated element can actually trigger a float bug in Internet Explorer 7.
This is only a problem, so far as I can see, when you’re using backgrounds on the unfloated element(s), because thr background image or colour will overrun your floated element.
Want to …
Testing CSS for print media: we need a Print Preview for developers!
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The virtues of @media print have been explained elsewhere, best of all by Eric Meyer in his seminal A List Apart article Going to Print, whose original publish date (May 2002) makes me feel a bit old!
Yet one of the most annoying aspects of developing CSS for print is testing it.
Now I know …
Typekit: when will web fonts flow freely?
Proper font embedding in a browser is long overdue. We’ve had to put up with the same old Arial, Verdana, Georgia, Helvetica, Times New Roman for years.
Now that browsers have to some extent caught up with the rest of us, thanks in no small part to a bit of healthy competition, Typekit has finally answered …
Web Standards
I’m currently two-thirds through Jeffrey Zeldman’s “Designing with Web Standards”.
It was published only a couple of years ago (a long time in Web world, of course) and it’s interesting to trace the arc of developments since then.
Whilst much of the methodology described in the book is becoming increasingly normal nowadays, I certainly wasn’t aware of …
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Berlin
Berlin is a city of strong contrasts and illogical progressions. Graffiti-covered artist squats to cool, glassy government buildings. Triumphant neo-classical architecture to empty plots of weedy wasteland. Enlightenment, growth, political extremism, the Wall, …
- Originally published: 30 Mar 2009 in Europe
Girona and the 3rd Caixa Sabadell Etnival
Now let’s get one thing straight: Girona is a city in Catalonia. It is not in Italy – if you think that, you’re crossing Genoa and Verona and you’re getting Gerona (sic). J …
- Originally published: 29 Jun 2007 in Europe
Enough already!
What did you expect? You pluck a porcine, no-hope loser out of some dump in Bermondsey. You take her out of her dental nurse job, you shove her into the dentist’s chair …
- Originally published: 21 Jan 2007 in Editorial
At home with Papa: from Key West to Key Largo
Great War ambulance driver, the Lost Generation’s leading light, hunter in the Serengeti, radicalist sympathiser in the Spanish Civil War, Q-Boat captain Cuba, D-Day correspondent, Nobel Prize winner, friend then enemy of …
- Originally published: 16 Jan 2008 in North America
Death at Intervals
José Saramago Harvill Secker (2008) Author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 As translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Saramago is the sort of wise old gent we’d want present if we could still …
- Originally published: 3 Jul 2008 in Books
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Hello you. I'm Mike Padgett and I work in the technology sector as an Information Designer.
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I'm based in Brussels, Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is St Feuillien Brune.