Category Archive for 'CSS'

Minifying Javascript and CSS on mrclay.org

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Minify v2 is coming along, but it’s time to start getting some real-world testing, so last night I started serving this site’s Javascript and CSS (at least the 6 files in my WordPress templates) via a recent Minify snapshot.
As you can see below, I was serving 67K over 6 requests and was using some [...]

Why CSS layout is hard

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

The complaints are many and oft-repeated: “CSS has no grid system”, “the cascade is dumb”, “it’s broken”, etc. So why is CSS layout so hard? The obvious answer is that doing anything really well isn’t always easy. Most anyone can make a page in a modern WYSIWG editor (DW8/GoLiveCS2) in five minutes and have an [...]

What happened to the design?

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

We’re sorry, CSS will return tomorrow.
See Web Standards Naked Day (SFW) for more info.

IE7 Compatible Float Clearing

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

According to the latest news at least. Includes font-size:0 per the original author of this mess.
.clearfix:after {
content:”.”;
display:block;
height:0;
font-size:0;
clear:both;
visibility:hidden;
}
.clearfix {display:inline-block;}
/* \\*/
* html .clearfix {height:1%;}
.clearfix {display:block;}
/* */

Opera 9 will pass Acid2

Friday, March 10th, 2006

Technical Preview 2 came close, but the latest nightly build is on the money!
This site has an entire history of Opera browsers testing Acid2. Note that IE7’s rendering is close to that of 2001’s Opera 6.

Opera 9 closes in

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Opera 9 Technical Preview 2 rendering of the Acid2 test:

Acid2 allows at-a-glance testing of browsers against web standards, particularly the most needed and under-supported features of CSS2.1 and HTML4.01.