Tag: web standards
Wrangling writers: information design and content policy
Notes on important themes in the close relationship between information design and content writing and editing.
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 …
Progressive enhancement and Flash: no longer a pact with the Devil
For me, Flash development pretty much dropped off the radar in 2004. Jakob Nielsen famously killed the idea of Flash as the be-all and end-all of websites and suddenly, like the stock market interest in the dotcoms, the buzz had gone.
I wrote about Flash again in 2006 on the occasion of the technology’s tenth birthday, …
jQuery .html() returns strange results in IE after other bindings
This article originally addressed jQuery 1.3.1. See below for results in jQuery 1.4 (18 January 2010)
When I’m testing work done with jQuery in Internet Explorer, I’m normally a karmic cow. I wonder if Mr Resig and friends ever thought about their specific contribution to world peace.
Indeed with jQuery, you can almost forget about the bad …
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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Castles and vineyards
This is quite a tough route in and around the wine villages of Alsace. Not especially technical, but given the general topography there was a lot of climbing to be done. The route …
- Originally published: 11 Nov 2009 in Walking
Rant
Chuck Palahniuk Vintage (first published 2007) With Rant, the endlessly inventive Palahniuk may have finally run out of ideas. The author’s formidable back-catalogue, which includes Fight Club, Survivor and Lullaby, illustrates his original, if …
- Originally published: 3 Jul 2008 in Books
Luxor
Modern Luxor (known locally as Al Uqsur) stands where once stood the ancient city of Thebes. History is everywhere in Egypt but nowhere more so than here. Hidden in the desert mountains beyond the …
- Originally published: 18 Oct 2006 in Middle East
PANTONE swatch
As a leaving gift from my current business, I received a PANTONE swatch. It’s a beautiful thing, isn’t it? Thanks, J Limited! …
- Originally published: 29 Jun 2005 in Personalia
Katrina was here
In August 2005, New Orleans was hit by Hurricane Katrina. Over 1,500 people lost their lives and over 700 are still missing today. Rough estimates suggest that damage to the states of Louisiana …
- Originally published: 18 Jan 2008 in North America
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Hello you. I'm Mike Padgett and I work in the technology sector as an Information Designer.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm based in Brussels, Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is St Feuillien Brune.