Posts Tagged ‘web’

What I’m Reading: 3/20

Thursday, March 20th, 2008
  1. CSS Styled Scroll­bars With Mootools and JQuery: Cur­rently, only the IEs sup­port the styling of scroll­bars with CSS alone (although scroll­bar styles are part of CSS3). This post links to a cou­ple of Javascript-library-based tech­niques to get the job done in the meantime.
  2. Mak­ing ‘IE6-friendly’ PNG8 Images: Turns out our beloved hack to get trans­par­ent PNG32s in IE6 can some­times crash the browser. To play it safe and ensure crash-free view­ing of your site, it’s prob­a­bly best to use PNG8 until IE6 is no longer a fac­tor (some­day, «ras­safrackin…»). This post gives you some tech­niques to make your PNG8 graph­ics almost as use­ful as PNG32s.

What I’m Reading: 3/19

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
  1. Mar­t­ian Head­sets: Spolsky’s take on IE8 & web standards.
  2. Trans­la­tion From MS-Speak to Eng­lish of Selected Por­tions of Joel Spolsky’s “Mar­t­ian Head­sets”: Mark Pilgrim’s take on the above.
  3. Site­Point Guru Lists: SitePoint’s authors have listed the best arti­cles on the Site­Point, er, site, for get­ting started in var­i­ous areas of web design & development.