Why I chose HTML4 over XHTML Strict

January 6, 2010

One thing that may surprise readers of the book is my choice to use HTML4 Strict for the markup in the book. That may seem strange given that the last decade has been devoted towards pushing “web standards with XHTML.” After all, experts like Jeffrey Zeldman can’t be wrong, can they? Of course not. At […]

@font-face Generator

December 2, 2009

More and more browsers are able to handle embedded fonts, but getting the right formats for each browser can be tricky. For example, Internet Explorer requires a proprietary format called EOT, or “Embedded OpenType”, but getting fonts in that format isn’t easy and Microsoft’s tools don’t seem to work all that well for some people. […]

Know Your IE CSS

October 14, 2009

Smashing Magazine has a great article that shows you which standard CSS selectors will and will not work on IE 6, 7, and 8. It doesn’t show workarounds, but it’s a very handy cheat sheet if you can’t remember them all. CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8