10 posts tagged “paul-hammond”
2008
Conditional classnames. Yahoo!’s internal coding standards still recommend CSS hacks over conditional comments because a separate stylesheet for IE imposes an additional HTTP request. Paul Hammond points out that you can use conditional comments to write out an extra class=“ie” attribute on the body element and use that to target the IE specific fixes in your stylesheets.
2005
journal [paulhammond.org]. Paul’s back.
2004
RSS bookmark feeds. Thoughts on live bookmarks for bookmark sharing from Paul Hammond.
2003
Blogmarks
This entry was going to be another list of links, together with a note about how much I really needed to set up a separate link blog. Then I realised that it would make more sense just to set one up so that’s exactly what I’ve done. I still need to implement the archive but it’s getting dark so I’m posting this and heading home.
[... 211 words]On CSS Remakes
I’m a bit late to the party on this one, but Paul Hammond’s open letter to “tableless” recoders caused quite a stir a few weeks back with its extensive list of reasons that recoding someone else’s site in CSS helps no one and can in fact have a negative affect on the CSS advocacy effort (the response to the article is summarised in his follow up post).
[... 356 words]CSS drop shadows
Yet another groovy CSS demo: Drop shadow effects using only two nested divs and an alpha-transparent PNG. They look passable in IE as well. Another gem from Paul Hammond’s link blog. Incidentally, Paul has written up some interesting observations on how a previous item from his link blog spread itself around the ’net after I linked to it a few days ago.
What the F* Happened?
What the *F* happened to the internet? is a rambling but entertaining description of how big business stole the ’net, and how it doesn’t really matter (via Paul Hammond’s links blog).
Haunted by old hacks
Paul Hammond is seeking the perfect way of marking up code snippets. He examines several methods, including this interesting specimen:
[... 122 words]2002
Blockquote citations
Inspired by Adrian Holovaty, I spent an hour this morning getting dirty with the DOM in an effort to replicate his funky CSS blockquote citations effect but with links that you can actually click on. The resulting code is now active on this weblog—check the javascript out here.
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