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It has been close to a month since Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8, and there hasn’t been too much news about the browser. For Microsoft, this could be a good thing if you live by the saying “No news is good news”, but it can also be a bad thing for the large company. A Google search with the key words Internet Explorer 8 comes back with more Microsoft sites, including MSDN, then any other third party site. People at Microsoft may start to worry, since they haven’t been effective in letting the world know the changes they have made to the latest release. One of the really big changes with IE 8, or Microsoft in general, is that they are really starting to comply with standards. Dean Hachamovitch, who is the manager of the IE team, indicated at MIX09 that the IE team is committed to industry standards. In Dec of 2007 everyone got a glimpse of this commitment when Microsoft announced that a beta version of IE 8 passed the Acid 2 test. One of the larger standards that the IE Team is proud of meeting the standards for CSS 2.1.
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Posted on April 13th, 2009 by Derald under
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You may have heard the saying, “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.”. This is a term that every programmer should learn and obey when creating code. When you create clean code it will help you troubleshoot any issues you may have with your code in the future. Here are five practices you should follow when writing code.
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Posted on March 17th, 2009 by Derald under
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Javascript
There are three ways to call for a CSS attribute. Using classes, you can put the code either in a separate document, or in style tags in your header. You can also put the CSS attributes directly in the HTML elements. We will talk about which you should use and how they should be used.
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Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by Derald under
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Due to the growth of the web there are many different browser on the market, and many different ways for users to connect to your website. During the internet boom in the 90’s, you would see websites all the time that would say Best viewed in Internet Explorer 4 at 800 x 600 resolution. In today’s standard this would not be considered professional, and for the most part is not accepted by the community in general. So how do you choose what browser to code for?
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Posted on August 6th, 2008 by Derald under
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One of the most over looked attributes in CSS is the :first-letter attribute. With this attribute you can add a lot of style to your site, with very little code. If you wanted to make your pages have theme similar to books in the Dark Ages, this attribute is perfect for that.
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Derald under
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Layouts
Browsing the web, you may have noticed that there are sites where text areas have different color backgrounds. This allows the create of the site to add more of a custom look to the site.
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Posted on May 19th, 2008 by Derald under
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Layouts
If you are anything like me, you are pretty lazy. Like me, you probably spend more time trying to find someone else’s solution to a problem than solving it yourself. Don’t worry, it’s ok, I do it too. The truth hurts doesn’t it?
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by admin under
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As always, magic tricks have captured my attention. So today I present you with my own magic trick. We’re going to make some text appear and disappear into thin "cyber" air. Unlike real magicians, I’ll show you how I did it.
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Posted on April 1st, 2008 by admin under
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You know how when you’re chillin’ at the crib with the homies reading up on ancient texts, and you notice that fancy drop cap on the first letter of the document? Come on now, I’m not the only one who does this right? Yeah, well we are going to bring it back, like Hammer pants, with CSS.
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Posted on March 14th, 2008 by admin under
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Have you ever found yourself wondering how you could somehow jazz up that simple, unordered list you have just sitting there on your website? Does it look like something our good friend Bill would have busted out in PowerPoint way back in 1990 on windows 3.0? Yeah, I thought so. Don’t fret my friends; CSS has come to the rescue…
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Posted on February 29th, 2008 by admin under
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