An interesting use of CSS for making playing cards.
BrainJar.com: Playing Cards with CSS:
This example demonstrates using CSS to graphically display standard playing cards on a web page. An obvious use would be for creating JavaScript card games like blackjack or poker.
While battling css, I found some nice linkage to a php hack around the IE css Box Model Problem. Its a great alternative!
A commenter by the name of Moof in this thread leaves the code to make an RSS button (XML) completely in CSS:
<span style=”font-size: 10px; border: 0.4ex solid; border-color: #FC9 #630 #330 #F96; padding: 0 3px; font-face: sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: #FFF; background: #F60; text-decoration: none;>XML</span>
I was on the hunt to find out between
em
vs.
i
or
strong
vs.
b
was depreciated or not.
Upon further review at w3.org they are all acceptable. At least according to their table located here: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html. This also includes a list of acceptable attributes.
Brent Ashley explains what Ajax is
AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous JAvascript XML. Ok, now that I’ve told you that, forget you ever heard it. Ajax (proper case) has already come to represent a wider concept. The concept is this: Load up and render a webpage, then remain at that page while scripted routines make background trips to the server for data that is used to update the page in place by re-rendering and or hiding/unhiding portions of the page.
10 tips for speeding up web page loading
Just submitted an article with 10 tips for speeding up webpages to Cyberwurx:
This is an impatient net society as netizens crave more bandwidth. It seems logical to think that the hosting company are the primary people to contact when pages load slowly, but there are actually a lot of things that we, as webmasters, can do first and foremost to make sure that our web pages load faster before contacting the hosting company. Sometimes very small changes we make with our habits as webmasters can make huge impacts in the speed of which our web pages load particularly in the content of the pages, the compression and third party programs being accessed/used. Today I’m going to detail some specific items below that will help speed up web pages…
Everything from writing your own HTML, optimizing images all the way to the more advanced concepts of employing caching is discussed.
Happy coding to you!