Category: CSS
Just a quick post to highlight a great package I found in the Ubuntu Repositories: gcolor2! gcolor2 launches one of those color-pickers with the hue/saturation triangle embedded in the color rainbow ring. It has a bunch of boxes for RGB values, hex name, etc. and so on. Where this really...
Just a quick tip to keep in mind when overriding default color values on elements with CSS : Make sure to override all colors involved. I have been bitten by this in some of my own sites. When I switched over to a dark theme in Openbox, all of the form controls inside web pages inverted from...
Web development is entirely reliant on browsers to display web sites. Without browsers, the large majority of the Internet would cease to be useful – or functional for that matter. So how is it that browsers don't matter? Each browser has at it's core a layout engine, and this layout...
One of the things I've been doing as of late involves subscribing to the RSS feed of any sites I find in my travels - that is, any feeds I think might provide insight or intelligence. One of the sites I've stumbled upon is Design Meltdown , a design-heavy web site that showcases good design...
There has been tons of news recently about IE8. It's extremely early in the browser's development, so take it all with a grain of salt, but it has been announced that IE8 passes the Acid2 test , which means the support for standards should be huge leaps and bounds over IE7, and completely...
I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to print it anymore. For the love of cranberries, folks. I have a big problem with web sites that look fine and readable on the screen, but look like a train wreck when you print it out. It would be easier to overlook if it wasn't for the ease of setting up a...