So … Microsoft would like you to believe that their latest re-draft of the Internet Explorer joke (which is getting very old indeed) now has a new, improved punchline … about the only thing that they can guarantee you, is that you’ll laugh twice as much as ever before. I mean come on – how can a company that has done so much for the personal computer (market?) get it so wrong so consistently? (more…)

I just finished reading this article on TechRepublic that discusses the topic of garbage HTML, semantics and validation – I am not going into the details of the article, but suffice it to say that it is an opinion piece based on some very simple (but accurate/effective) research that underlines what I have said about validation before (and also the reason for the name of this blog). (more…)

Yes, everyone’s doing it … following twitter and muti, there are frequent (almost daily) submissions of everyone’s list of favorite design resources, trends to watch, companies to look out for and a plethora of posts about people’s new year’s resolutions. So herewith my ten cents … now with added resolutions … I resolve to submit to these resources more frequently in 2009 (hope I didn’t jinx myself now). (more…)

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Right … so you’ve created your navigation bar and figured out how to do roll-overs the (CSS-)only way, but there’s no attribute or style property that allows you to target the link for the page that is currently being displayed. There is a “technique” that can help us out here though … we use specificity (quite a tongue twister yes). In other words we target specific elements by including the full path from parent to the last child. I’ll explain in full below… (more…)

I have read several tutorials about buttons and styling them in the past, but never really found one that allowed me a cross-browser bulletproof solution (although I might not have looked hard enough), but I devised my own quick & dirty way of getting buttons to behave as I tell them to in the meantime; here’s my recipe (please note: I have stuck it in an iframe for it to not interfere with the styling of my blog, you might have to scroll down a little) … (more…)