Advanced CSS Design Resources – last-child.com

User generated ratings and reviews are an important part of all Yahoo! sites. You can find them on just about every page of Yahoo! Tech.  It was important for us to develop a ratings presentation device that was easy to code, accessible, flexible, and as light-weight as possible. Our final design uses a combination of [...]

The IE7 blog has a new post of items that have been fixed in the upcoming release of IE7. While not on the list, the problem I found with alpha transparent png sprites has been fixed for the final release. Take a look at the list and think of it as new tools to use. [...]

You’ve probably heard of Microformats by now. It’s that vague concept floated amongst the standardistas which promises to solve world hunger and bring peace to the Middle East. You’ve always got something more immediate to do and hope to read about it soon. Heck, you don’t even know how it is actually used as an [...]

Yahoo! Tech launched with basic support for the hReview microformat. Initially, I had no way of testing the output and didn’t realize our limited output. Tails, a Firefox extension, has helped me fine-tune the hReviews. However, Yahoo! Tech still has an outstanding bug with these reviews. Due to the modular construction of this page,  I [...]

The <span> tag is often avoided by developers at all costs. It carries no semantic or presentational value and exisits solely as a container and hook for a developer’s CSS. Many argue that more semantic options, i.e. <strong> or <em> should be used instead. This is a good argument, but never say never. Think about [...]