http://www.last-child.com CSS Toys for Professional Web Developers Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:34:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en View the finished example: Adding style to your rel link. There's a little attribute in HTML links that is starting to get a bit of attention lately. The "rel" attribute is a sparsely defined attribute that applies some meta information about a link's relationship to other documents. Unfortunately, this information is ... http://www.last-child.com/rel-attribute-display/ Attribute Selector Test Page We have avoided using CSS3 rules for too long. It's been difficult to justify using rules that won't work for a significant portion of our audience, Internet Explorer 7 and below. However, Internet Explorer 8 is coming out soon and does work with the features ... http://www.last-child.com/css-attribute-selector/ Sometimes the simplest information is difficult to find. Today I was searching for the HTML entities for French characters. Fortunately, I found the following resource French Encoding and Language Tags from Penn State. Here's an example of the information available on the Teaching with Technology site: ... http://www.last-child.com/utf-8-compatible-accented-characters/ The often discussed, semi-fabled video on Flickr feature is finally released. It's actually pretty cool. They've decided not to fight Yahoo! Video or You Tube for video supremacy. Instead, they've limited the time length to 90 seconds and hope to build a community of shorter, more personal videos that you ... http://www.last-child.com/flickr-video-is-live/ The internet is awash in video. YouTube, Yahoo Video, and other video sites host millions of videos with little attention to close captioning. For many sites, the text translations exist, they simply are not used. This sucks. Television shows have featured captioning for many years. It's sometimes the only way to ... http://www.last-child.com/closed-captioning-need-a-jump-start/ Did you upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 and now discover a fatal error? You may see this error when you log into the admin section if you have enabled the K2 sidebar manager: Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget() in /home/.foo/bar/mywebsite.com/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php on line 31. Brad at ChaoticTech has created a simple solution. ... http://www.last-child.com/how-to-fix-your-k2-powered-wordpress-blog-after-upgrading-to-25/ I'm working on a new theme for Wordpress. It's a generic theme that I hope will make it easier to build multiple business sites in the future. Part of the goal is integrating the Yahoo! YUI library into the superb K2 theme. I've come across a problem that should be ... http://www.last-child.com/multiple-asides-categories-in-wordpress/ We've had the luxury of hacks to fine tune Internet Explorer bugs. Internet Explorer 7 disabled the majority of hacks, with the exception of the * hack. This hack allowed you to send a style only to Internet Explorer by prefacing an attribute with an asterisk. /*this is for all browsers*/ #main ... http://www.last-child.com/ie7-and-ie8-hack-behavior/ The MIX 2008 conference is this week and Microsoft is showing off some of their latest tools. One of these is the much anticipated and discussed Internet Explorer 8 browser. It's important to remember that this is still a beta 1 release and is much better than the IE7 beta ... http://www.last-child.com/internet-explorer-8-beta-released-for-testing/ Let's say you want to link to a song on the internet. Let's also say that you want your users to easily listen to that music. Further, let's say you want people to find and enjoy the music without having JavaScript enabled. Is this asking too much? Yahoo's Christian Heilmann has been ... http://www.last-child.com/yahoo-music-easy-semantic-unobtrusive-music-badges/