For designers who find web standards as easy to grasp as a buttered eel, Craig Cook shows how to stop the hurting and turn on the understanding. Learn how web standards work, and why they are more than simply an alternative means of producing a visual design.
Topic: HTML
Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique
The introduction of new mobile and computing devices challenges us to look beyond the liquid layout. Marc van den Dobbelsteen offers a way to bring appropriate layouts to a wider range of screens and devices.
Super-Easy Blendy Backgrounds
Gradients: a nutritious part of your Web 2.0 breakfast. Wouldn’t it be swell if you could get all that goodness without opening Photoshop every time you needed a little gradient bliss? Matthew O’Neill explains how you can.
Long Live the Q Tag
IE/Win‘s lack of support for the Q tag has stymied fans of semantic markup. Stacey Cordoni offers a CSS-based workaround.
Automatic Magazine Layout
You can’t always count on having a professional designer around to resize and position your images for you, but you’d rather your page layout didn’t look like it was created by orangutans. Harvey Kane builds a script that makes your life easier.
Bye Bye Embed
Break the chains of <embed> and live free. Elizabeth Castro explains how to embed movies without using invalid markup.
Prettier Accessible Forms
Forms are a pain. You can make them pretty, make them accessible, or go a little crazy trying to achieve both. Nick Rigby offers a happy solution.
Community Creators, Secure Your Code! Part II
In part two of his two-part series on protecting your community site from malicious cross-site scripting attacks, Niklas Bivald rolls up his trousers and wades into the JavaScript.
World Grows Small: Open Standards for the Global Web
Molly Holzschlag explains how the practices you already use to create standards-based, accessible websites can serve you in the growing field of internationalization.
A More Accessible Map
Nifty web maps powered by Google and Yahoo! APIs are all the rage. And rage is what a visually impaired user may feel when trying to use them. Is there a way to make beautiful web maps accessible? In a word, yes.
