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Part 2 in my series on print.css

While one of your co-workers is in the middle of an annoying IE6 bug, say “zoom one” to them and chances are they will laugh (or maybe cry). The proprietary IE css ‘zoom‘ property has its roots in accessibility and well intentioned functionality however now it is mostly used as a IE6 hack to give an element the ‘has-layout‘ property.
It’s usually used in a moment of complete desperation at the last minute when nothing else is working; “dude…try {zoom:1}…. holy shit that worked!”.
» Continue reading “ZOOM is good for print.css”

Most of us now use css background images to display our logos so that we still have the text in our html source for SEO/Accessibility reasons. Usually works out just fine, but one day a very shocked and surprised QA person was waving paper in front of my face going “AHH! The logo is missing! The LOGO IS MISSING!”. I’m all like “background images do NOT print by default. Whatev…”. Then Someone else was like, ‘ewwww our logo doesn’t print?’. As a crowd started to form around the upheaval at my desk I dramatically crumpled the paper and said ‘Ill fix it, Ill fix it! GOSH…’
» Continue reading “Print CSS and Logos”

Hey here I am, another web developer with a blog! My own place to discuss the exciting topics we web devs love to argue about endlessly on our quest to make better websites for people to use.  Exciting and engaging topics such as:

• XHTML Strict or Transitional or HTML4 (to get ready for 5).
• Is W3C validation really THAT critical?
• CSS layout floats?
• jquery Vrs mootools (cool article)
• Flash, flex, JavaFX
• Expression Engine or WordPress or Drupal?
• SifR or the latest annoying text header replacement technique?
• Open external links in new window?
• Graceful degradation and progressive enhancement or screw no-js people?
• Browser detection, object detection or feature detection?

Do I care…really? Do I have opinions about these topics? Yup, but I usually won’t admit it. There are obviously enough places out there to discuss these matters, so if nothing else this blog is here to show the world that William Paoli truly is passionate about UI design, with expert knowledge of css/html/javascript, BA in computer science (or equivalent experience), basic Photoshop skills, and a team player with the desire to learn new things…Thanks for reading.