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Entries from October 2007

To <abbr> or <acronym>?

October 31st, 2007 No Comments

I believe the easiest way to differentiate them is to use <acronym> if you can speak it like a word, not spell them out like a group of letters. We say “ray-dar”, not are-aay-dee-ayy-are. So we get <acronym title=”Radio Detection and Ranging”>Radar</acronym>.
If spelling them out letter by letter it’s an <abbr>, like this <abbr title=”Cascading [...]

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My bad

October 24th, 2007 2 Comments

I’ve been stuck on a piece of CSS lately, simply couldn’t get the :hover to work on an anchor <a> element, in IE6 offcourse. Setting the positioning, the positioning of the container element, floats, z-index’s. All to no use. In the end I gave in and posted my problem on css-discuss. This is the reply [...]

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Webdeveloper tools for IE

October 23rd, 2007 No Comments

Firefox has all the plugins you can poke a stick at, but what to do when IE is doing its “thing”? Windows Explorer plugins to the rescue!
Westciv’s XRAY is a javascript bookmarklet that lets you click on items in your webpage and view some of the CSS information regarden the area you’ve selected.
Microsoft has their [...]

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HTML tidy for Firefox

October 15th, 2007 1 Comment

The HTML Tidy plugin for Firefox is a great little tool when viewing other webpages’ source. It shows any errors, where they are, and what they are. It also has a clean-up function for those pesky unreadable CMS made html codes, making it easier for the human eyes and brain to read.
If you’re on Windows [...]

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Save the world

October 15th, 2007 2 Comments

Today is Blog Action Day. What is that? It’s a reason for me to go off-topic and list up a few things I do to make the future a little bit more pleasant. I believe that doing yours for the environment is more important then weather to use strict or transitional doctype…
It doesn’t need to [...]

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