Friday 30th of July 2010

Archive for the ‘XHTML & CSS’ Category

Ministry of Defence

Website: defencedynamics.mod.uk
When I first heard about this project, 2 things sprung to mind:
1. Govenment related project – must be AA accessible
2. Educational project – must be AA accessible
So either way it was essential that Defence Dynamics was AA accessible and I had to make sure I had enough time to do all the XHTML and [...]

Mobile Browsing – Add phone number to your contacts

Since every other mobile phone on the market seems to be a smart phone/mobile computer here’s a great tip for adding a phone number to a webpage to allow mobile browser to call/add to address book.
It makes perfect sense for web designers/front end devs to add some extra code in their markup to enable [...]

HTML5 Website – Cockpit Arts

With all the HTML 5 release excitement I really wanted to jump straight into it and get my hands dirty, thankfully I had that opportunity at ID Media London, a Digital Communications Agency I work for as an Interface Architect. The project is a campaign-based micro-site for Cockpit Arts – Makerdifference – A great yet [...]

Firefox 3 Only CSS Hack

Firefox 3 has been troublesome recently, especially since we are now testing for IE6,7 and 8 as well. I managed to find a Firefox 3 only hack to help with those sticky situations:
html>/**/body .TEST, x:-moz-any-link, x:default { }
Works like dream!

CSS Reset – Including HTML5 CSS Reset

I finally managed to put together some CSS Reset Rules, using a combination from Eric Meyer and random custom styles I’ve found useful:
/* RESET *******************************************************/
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, [...]