Archive for the ‘XHTML’ Category

After Tiger

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

Now that I've had some time to take the new Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' through it's paces, I've found a few observations worth noting: Using the XHTML label tag doesn't seem to broaden the clickable area of a form element. This was probably true before, but with Tiger's accompanying Safari ...

Apply CSS to Safari Form Buttons

Monday, October 11th, 2004

While the Aqua form elements in Safari are cool and all, I do sometimes wish I had the ability to apply CSS colors to the scroll bars and buttons. Well at least for the buttons, there's a solution. For form buttons, you can always use <button type="submit">Submit</button> method instead ...

Sayonara PowerPoint

Friday, October 8th, 2004

Here is an awesome alternative to PowerPoint using standards-based web design techniques, courtesy of Eric Meyer: S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a ...

More Zen

Monday, October 4th, 2004

Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag have co-authored a book entitled "Zen of CSS" which should be out in December or early 2005, and it is already available for pre-order: Amazon.com: Books: The Zen of CSS Design : Visual Beauty for the Web Anyone familiar with the CSS Zen ...

My Favorite Mac OS X Apps

Sunday, September 12th, 2004

What are your favorite/essential apps? This game keeps coming around every so often, and now's a good time to play since I'm ludicrously busy with multiple design projects and am making full use of every scrap of the 1.25 GB of RAM my PowerBook has. I even saw my first ...