Archive: August 2006
With the impending arrival of IE7 I have been researching the best way to clear floats without extra markup (most existing "hacks" don't work in IE7). I thought I had
the answer but there were limitations. One method didn't work in IE5 and the other stopped your stylesheet from validating. Now I've stumbled upon another method, incredibly simple and, so far, faultless. If you have a container that must fully enclose its floated children, simply float it too! It's called the
Float (Nearly) Everything method - genius!
21 August 2006
A while back I stumbled upon a CSS optimiser that compressed your stylesheets but made them essentially unreadable. Now I've found a really good one called
CleanCSS that not only gives you loads of compression options but also lets you choose from five levels of readability. It's fab! Basically, it takes your CSS code and makes it cleaner and more concise and that speeds up your load time - what more could you want?
18 August 2006
My company has recently started integrating microformats into its websites. Microformats are for marking up commonly used information-rich HTML content in such a way that semantic meaning can be machine extracted. In other words, you can mark up contact information with the right classes and then wonderful little programs like the firefox extension
Tails Export will find that information and allow visitors to export it to programs like Outlook. I see the whole idea having a lot of potential to really change the way we use the web. Find out more on the
official microformats site or read a
good introduction to microformats here.
17 August 2006 | 2 comments