Archive for the ‘html’ Category

Interesting Presentation on Web Development Standards

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Produce Better CSS, HTML, Javascript Faster: 20 Useful Tools

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Found this on Digg. A bunch of tools to help develop faster and better websites. Tools for producing, optimizing and testing CSS, HTML, and Javascript.

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Microsoft Outlook 2007 Sucks at HTML email

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Microsoft - why don’t you just disable HTML email in Outlook 2007 rather than implement it so badly?

It now uses Microsoft Word’s rendering engine. The interesting thing is what happens when you forward on an email. You can view the source in Outlook which hides the transformations it is applying - but it isn’t until you forward it and view the source of that email that you can see what trash it is converting it too.

Why should I have to revert to using a table to create a simple border round a block of text when this should be able to be achieved with a div and css?

According to this list of what isn’t supported at Sitepoint (Microsoft Breaks HTML Email Rendering in Outlook 2007) …

no support for background images (HTML or CSS)
no support for forms
no support for Flash, or other plugins
no support for CSS floats
no support for replacing bullets with images in unordered lists
no support for CSS positioning
no support for animated GIFs

you can add inconsistent support for most everything else!

The Yahoo! User Interface Library CSS Grid Builder

Friday, April 11th, 2008

More goodness from Yahoo! …
YUI: CSS Grid Builder

Faster Web Pages

Monday, March 31st, 2008

A fantastic presentation from Yahoo! on multiple ways (including CSS, Javascript and server-side technologies) to speed up page delivery and rendering. I think most developers would learn something from this.

Here is another presentation from Yahoo! which touches on the same issues …

Why you should be using HTML 4.01 instead of XHTML

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

The way most developers use XHTML - they may as well use HTML 4.01 - nice rundown on myths about XHTML and the problems with how it gets used.

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List of Web Development Cheat Sheets

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Great list of links to web development cheat sheets covering Javascript, CSS, HTML/XHTML, AJAX, Colors, Microformats, Browser Compatability, and XML.

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Basics of XHTML tags

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Have always found this site useful for HTML and CSS stuff …

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Way old now - but I still use it - Bloo’s homepage

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