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Flickerless CSS Image Rollovers with no JavaScript
Apr 23, 2009 by Travis
Using an image as a background lets you have a lot more control over certain elements (like anchors). One of the main problems with images as backgrounds for anchors, however, is when you have a separate image as the rollover state. When the anchor is hovered over, you can see a brief blink while the rollover image is loaded for the first time. Of course, you can use a ...
Valid XHTML - How to Lose the Non-SGML Characters
May 31, 2007 by Colin
Here at Plexus, we pride ourselves on our use of Web standards, which lead to greater usability and searchability, in addition to better preparation for future browsers and other Web technology. We proudly display links to validation services at w3.org for our XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS, and they show that we're writing valid code. On our sites that allow users to ent...
Rails inline ERb effects on HTML structure
Mar 20, 2007 by Travis
When using Ruby on Rails, ERb (embedded Ruby) is used a LOT in the X/HTML. There are two types of ERb, An evaluation block: <% some_code %> And an output block: <%= @print_this_variable %> These blocks are necessary when using Rails, and I've noticed that when I do a 'View Source' (via the Web Developer addon for Firefox, of course), I se...
Old School HTML for Email Marketing
Mar 8, 2007 by Buck
This morning, I formatted an email newsletter for Nuci's Space. Because most web-based email services don't support modern web standards in their preview windows, one must resort to old table-based layout to insure that your message has the best chance to be seen. First, I thought I'd seen the last of the font tag, nested tables and other ugly format hacks when we ad...
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