Wednesday, 6. June 2007, 16:44:44
Blood Lakes, stylesheets, css, Robinson Jeffers
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This is my most recent collection of CSS experiements, using photographs and the Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. One page doesn't present at all properly in Internet Explorer with any version less than 7. I design using Firefox 2, but most pages work more or less as intended using Opera.
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Wednesday, 31. January 2007, 21:41:11
css, javascript, stylesheets, scripting
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I don't have a bunch of interesting adventures to talk about; mostly I've been working on my web-building skills. Yesterday I did a semi-major revamp of my design site:
glassangel.com.
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Thursday, 27. April 2006, 05:30:33
CSS3, web, layout, columns
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Although CSS3 has not yet become the specification for the web, there is one new development which seems very exciting for the purposes of layout: an attribute selector tentatively called "column-count". This attribute allows the author to format text to flow into a predetermined number of columns of equal height, the way you can do with a desktop publishing program like InDesign or Quark. Mozilla Firefox/Seamonkey is already experimenting with this attribute. Unfortunately it only works in Mozilla browsers as of this writing, though I'm hoping Opera jumps on this too. As I said in another post: who cares what that atavistic browser parody, IE 7, 8, whatever-- does with
their product.
Anyway, here's a sample
Lorem Ipsum example of the
column-count attribute set to "3". Take a look at it in a basic text editor; see how basic the markup is. To view the style in action, however, you'll have to be in a recent vintage Mozilla browser.
Anyway,
I'm thrilled. But then, I'm easily captivated by shiny objects and other trivial things.
Sunday, 23. April 2006, 03:46:33
stylesheets, O'Reilly Books, Safari Online, javascript
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I think I've mentioned (not that I really imagine anyone is actually reading this) that I've been refreshing my CSS skills. I've been using Eric Meyer's Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, published by O'Reilly & Associates, and I've been working out of Designing With Javascript, also by O'Reilly.
Well, guess who I'm working upstairs from this week?
Actually, the company I'm working for is someone you photographers out there might know: LowePro. I understand they're fairly well known in the industry.
Anyway, I'm taking a break from the CSS for a few days. I just did an experimental layout using css columns from the CSS3 specification, which will only work in Firefox, but here's hoping that Opera will pick this up soon (I have no such illusions about Microsuck, who won't even be supporting the entire CSS2 spec in their next version).
I also may be working on some websites that have some degree of visibilty outside that small circle of people who are usually involved with the organization requesting the site.
Boy howdy, I'm tired. I haven't had much sleep for a few days, so I hope my grammer doesn't appear too labored.
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