Advanced CSS Design Resources – last-child.com

The standardistas were abuzz a year ago with hopeful predictions for the coming year. Visions of sugar plums dropping rounded corners, AJAX, and alpha transparent pngs danced through their heads. 2006 has been a great year for web development. Did we get what we wanted? Did we get too much of what we wanted? Further, [...]

Chris Wilson, the main guy behind IE7 (and older versions) discussed several new features of Internet Explorer 7 at the @media conference in London. One feature in particular that stood out for me was the OpenSearch protocol. Adding this to your site can be easy, it can also be a headache. What is OpenSearch? OpenSearch [...]

One of the @media seminars this year prompted me to ask a question to the Europeans about forcing text-wrapping on really long words. We’ve been having a problem on Yahoo! Tech with people pasting urls into their comments, questions, and reviews. These long urls want to extend past the containers and we have had to [...]

Robin Christopherson introduced a problem at the @media 2006 conference that I had never imagined. Can a person using voice recognition software use your image-based links? What about links that use image-replacement? It’s a simple enough question, the answer may surprise you. Imagine your boss just messed up her shoulder jumping her Harley over 3 [...]

While speaking at the @media conference this year, Gez Lemon announced an easier way to understanding the new WCAG 2.0 requirements. They are meant to be technology neutral to allow future flexibility. Unfortunately, this also makes them difficult to understand. If you are only concerned about HTML, CSS, XML, or another format, use the WCAG [...]