Yesterday I experienced an unusual rendering issue in Internet Explorer. The entire layout was aligning left and a couple z-index declarations were being ignored. Usually you can fix the minor issues with some Conditional Comments but these inconsistencies were too great to blame on the Trident Layout Engine(MSHTML). Besides, before I added Coldfusion to the mix it rendered properly in every browser.
Type Doc has been rewritten and released for a second round! Typedoc is simply a CSS and XHTML editor that runs in your browser with the help of jQuery. You can save the document locally or use the provided link for any purpose you have.
Given that the target attribute for the anchor tag does not comply with the W3C recommendation, which in turn does not validate, creating a new window for a link is not possible using a Strict XHTML Doctype.
Many times a “table like” layout is necessary to abide by the Rule of Thirds law, specially with the currently popular “magazine” type website layouts.
Adding a table to the layout would simply be too easy, and wouldn’t fit into the “Do Everything without Tables” mentality plaguing the web. So I demonstrate how to achieve the behavior without the table.
“Simple Slide” is an automated slide show that can also be used for banner ads. Download it now to tweak it for your specific application.
Here is a simple attempt at some JavaScripted tooltips. I expect there to be bugs when you have two “sticky” tooltips overlapping each other.
Years ago before I discovered Internet Explorer’s Conditional Comments, I struggled with CSS hacks, IE filters, and unreliable JavaScript sniffers.
With this technique markup inside the comments will be only visible to the IE browser in general or specific versions that you specify.
Here’s a color picker i created a while ago dubbed “Hex Flex”. It was more of a beta that I plan on recoding and releasing soon.
I created a markup editor dubbed “Type Doc” to use when I didn’t have access to an HTML editor. Yes, notepad is always an option but this has live updating in the environment(browser) you are going to be using. Which could make for a nice learning tool because you will see your success and mistakes reflected immediately.
Tooltips are a useful feature that can be used to elaborate on information without creating another page or linking to another source. It presents the user with immediate results. There are a variety of tooltips available that utilize JavaScripts advantages. Even though most are widely compatible with browsers there is still a small percentage of users that would not see the tooltip when activated with JS.
To solve this problem a CSS solution can be deployed that would work everywhere. There are no bells and whistles but if you require them I would suggest going the JavaScript route.
