http://treevis.com building your branch on the web Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:23:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I came across this article from the folks at Filament Group last week and have been considering it as an augmentation of my progressive enhancement approach to front-end development. The idea is that you use JavaScript to manipulate the DOM to test for correct implementation of some advanced CSS stuff (box ... http://treevis.com/2008/03/delivering-the-right-experience-to-the-right-device/ Jason Fried gave a rather inspiring talk (to me at least) at SxSW this year about the 10 things they've learned at 37Signals. He's posted one of his slides up on the SVN blog. http://treevis.com/2008/03/question-your-work/ The peeps at Nclud came up with a revision to the clearfix method of clearing floats. .clear { display:inline-block; /* or anything that triggers hasLayout in IE */ } .clear:after { clear:both; display:block; content: "."; height:0; visibility:hidden; } Valid CSS 2.1 and a bit cleaner ... http://treevis.com/2008/02/clearfix-is-dead-long-live-clearfix/ I'm off to SxSW on Friday. I went last year and it lived up to all the hype and is hands down the best conference I have ever attended. Rife with folks who love the web and are passionate to make it the best it can be. It'll be great ... http://treevis.com/2007/03/sxsw2007/ Yesterday I noticed that my site was spewing out a couple database errors (who knows how long that's been happening!). I repaired the tables and seems it's back to normal. http://treevis.com/2007/02/back-to-normal/ Do you have CSS that is only used when you have JS enabled? Are you trying to avoid some flickering of pre-JS-ified content? Then put that CSS in its own JavaScript-specific CSS file and write it to your HTML via one of two options. Good ol' document.write() <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" href="js.css" type="text/css" ... http://treevis.com/2006/11/js-only-css/ On a recent project, I came across an interesting bit of behavior from Windows Internet Explorer 6 that I wasn't expecting. I created the following CSS rule: input.text, input[type="text"] { border: 1px solid #555; color: #555; } I initially created this rule to pass browsers who understand attribute selectors the CSS ... http://treevis.com/2006/07/ie-6-and-attribute-selectors/ Dustin Diaz has embraced nudity full on. First SxSW, now he proposes that we all get naked on April 5. In the spirit of promoting Web Standards along with good semantic markup and proper hierarchy structures, April 5th will be a day of nakedness for all webmasters ... http://treevis.com/2006/04/lets-get-naked/ For the past couple months, I've been using the Modular CSS and CSS Framework developed by Mike Stenhouse over at Content with Style. I find it to be a rather powerful approach that has served me pretty well so far. Recently, I came across Alex Walker's Site Point article about Simple ... http://treevis.com/2006/02/clear-vs-overflow/ A couple days ago, my feed for Wired resumed updating and pulling in posts. One thing I noticed right off is that NetNewsWire indicated that each entry has an eclosure of an image. I opened up one of them and it revealed itself as a thumbnail to the post. Given ... http://treevis.com/2006/02/whats-with-wireds-rss/