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The detour around flash for accessibility Yahoo! Tech’s home page features a flash-based media space that highlights stories, comparisons, buying guides, blog posts, and more. Making this accessible required a bit of trial and error, but the solution was simple and can be used by sites everywhere. Step 1. Inserting the flash object The site [...]

I came across an issue with Internet Explorer 7 beta displaying the rating stars incorrectly in Yahoo! Tech. After doing some testing, I realized the browser was measuring the sprite image from the bottom up, rather than the top down. This is a significant issue. I had to create a new set of rules in [...]

I’ve been a recent convert to Design Meltdown. The site disects a visual theme and gives examples on how to use them and where they are being used. While exploring the latest post about sketches for the web, I noticed an interesting approach to the visited pages. The Breakdown The site has a series of [...]

Cameron Adams (The Man in Blue) has created a method to force a footer to stick to the bottom of a page, regardless of how much content it contains. His approach is based on the work by Craig Erskine (solarDreamStudios). The Setup You have a page that terminates in a sturdy footer, such as this [...]

Internet Explorer 6 has an issue with positioned elements that use z-index. Here’s the trouble I just had with this: I have a topnav consisting of an unordered list with a dropdown menu on one of the list elements. The dropdown is a nested unordered list with position:absolute and a z-index to sit on top [...]