http://www.blooboo.com/blog/ a web for everyone en-us 2004-05-01T22:04:07-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000110.php A little late, but the new Mozilla release candidate supports the CSS3 opacity property.... CSS jose 2004-05-01T22:04:07-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000112.php Excellent slideshow/presentation by Douglas Bowman titled CSS: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly. It details current and recently past techniques, why they were good attempts, how they fail, and what the future holds. As an introduction to the current... CSS jose 2004-04-21T18:11:53-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000111.php If you're looking for more than the previously mentioned Advanced Tables Tutorial, check out Isolani's Creating Structured Tables. It's a bit more on the practical side.... Accessibility jose 2004-04-11T20:07:43-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000108.php There is an interesting discussion here about wrapping a graphical logo within an H1 tag (Fahrner Image Replacement). Most seem to agree the semantic meaning is of most importance, but disagree whether or not the logo (company name) is semantically... Accessibility jose 2004-03-20T13:21:28-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000103.php Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 834489 announced an upcoming fix for the Internet Explorer username exploit that masked malicious website URLs. If you use any links that look like http(s)://username:password@server/resource.ext then any updated browsers will not follow them. The... Backend jose 2004-01-28T11:10:25-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000102.php For nearly a decade, tables and layout were synonymous when concerned with web design. Only recently has the drive towards CSS positioning finally allowed tables to be relegated to the unfashionable pile. Don't forget, however, that tables had a clear... Design jose 2004-01-25T00:23:10-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000098.php The NILS Australia has released a beta version of their Accessibility Toolbar for Internet Explorer. It is free, licensed under the Creative Commons license. Not to leave other browsers out, there is the Web Developer Extension for Mozilla and Firebird.... Accessibility jose 2004-01-16T20:16:10-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000097.php A common tip, sometimes handed down as admonishment, to web designers was to never think of translating print to the web. The web, the advice went, is platformless, and a design is not guaranteed to be the same across them.... Design jose 2004-01-03T20:08:43-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000083.php Selectutorial - CSS selectors is the most comprehensive and lucid tutorial I've seen on the subject. Aside from describing the technical aspects, there is a section dealing with best practices, as well as examples. If you're new to CSS, definitely... CSS jose 2003-12-04T18:14:20-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000081.php CSS Fisheye implements Ted Nelson's billowing text using CSS and Javascript. Nelson describes how it can be used to dynamically highlight text, much like OS X's icon zooming highlights an icon. The fisheye page doesn't say much in the way... CSS jose 2003-12-02T19:02:19-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000078.php The Underscore Hack relies on Internet Explorer (5 and up) ignoring underscores at the start of a property name. To illustrate, IE treats _position the same as position, enabling authors to write rules only it can understand. This is especially... CSS jose 2003-11-29T11:11:48-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000075.php favicon.ico (short for "Favorites Icon") is the graphical icon that is displayed on the URL bar and bookmarks list on some browsers, originating with Internet Explorer. It's a nice, unobtrusive way to impress branding outside the page area. This site... Design jose 2003-11-18T23:19:05-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000074.php Guide to CSS3 Selector Support is an excellent reference for figuring out which browsers support what. This can be used to implement advanced rules for browsers that support it without breaking older browsers.... CSS jose 2003-11-17T05:15:34-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000069.php The W3C released a working draft yesterday concerning the Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests. These tests are employed in a variety of situations, presenting a distorted image of a word in an effort to stop automated form registration used by... Accessibility jose 2003-11-06T21:56:40-05:00 http://www.blooboo.com/blog/archives/000070.php Joe Maddalone of Insert Title Web Designs has found a way to run different versions of Internet Explorer on the same installation of Windows (XP and 2000). No more rebooting to a second Windows installation, no more second computer, no... Design jose 2003-11-06T18:13:25-05:00