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Cursor sometimes fails to appear in input text fields
Friday, April 25, 2008
link: Bug 167801
This bug won’t be fixed until Firefox 3. The fixed range from awful to horrible, involving both CSS and JavaScript. I am rather annoyed.
I think what’s throwing me off is that I’m used to IE bugs. I expect them. And so many of them are related to having layout, I know where to […]
Text Figures
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
link: Use titling figures with full caps, and text figures in all other circumstances, from The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web.
Explored this myself 4 years ago in Typography Time. Back then I was going so far as to wrap all inline numbers in spans of class textfigure. Looks like the future of […]
Pulp Bard
Monday, April 21, 2008
link: Pulp Bard Wiki
It started over on ceruleanst’s livejournal. Now I might have to watch pulp fiction again just to read this. I wonder if we own it?
Dungeon
Monday, April 14, 2008
My copy of Dungeon that I picked up on eBay just arrived. I’ll have to ask my brother to see if he remembers, but I think this was our first introduction to fantasy gaming, before we even started playing AD&D, and long before M:tG.
Table-less Columnar Form or Key
Friday, April 4, 2008
I just implemented the solution to my longest outstanding CSS challenge: how to create two columns of elements with a gutter between them, without any knowledge of the height of either element. Two common examples are a graph key, and a form with labels to the left of the fields.
Your HTML could look something like […]
Common CSS Layout Challenges
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
I’m switching gears at work from JavaScript widgets to CSS layout, and let me just say that web browsers, they are humbling things. But I’ve been making an effort to make better use of outside resources during my development process, and it is really helping. Here are some of the challenges I’ve banged my head […]