Polytechnic » html http://polytechnic.co.uk The personal brain dump of Garrett Coakley Thu, 03 May 2012 14:46:54 +0000 en hourly 1 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2006/09/12-lessons-for-those-afraid-of-css-and-standards http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2006/09/12-lessons-for-those-afraid-of-css-and-standards#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 garrettc Ben Henick has a new article over on ALA: 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards. There are some great tips and hints here for those of you starting in web development, or those who are trying to break some bad habits gained over the years.

This one struck a particular chord with me, as it's something I've been trying to explain to clients for a while now:
Lesson No. 2: It’s not going to look exactly the same everywhere unless you’re willing to face some grief... and possibly not even then There are an awful lot of differences between rendering engines, and the W3C specs sanction those differences. You can adjust, tweak, hack, and waive, but if you want to preserve your social life, you will learn to let go of the small differences—and convince the stakeholders in your projects to do the same.

Amen to that!

]]> Ben Henick has a new article over on ALA: 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards. There are some great tips and hints here for those of you starting in web development, or those who are trying to break some bad habits gained over the years.

This one struck a particular chord with me, as it’s something I’ve been trying to explain to clients for a while now:

Lesson No. 2: It’s not going to look exactly the same everywhere unless you’re willing to face some grief… and possibly not even then

There are an awful lot of differences between rendering engines, and the W3C specs sanction those differences. You can adjust, tweak, hack, and waive, but if you want to preserve your social life, you will learn to let go of the small differences—and convince the stakeholders in your projects to do the same.

Amen to that!

]]> http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2006/09/12-lessons-for-those-afraid-of-css-and-standards/feed 2 Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 released http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2006/01/internet-explorer-7-beta-2-released http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2006/01/internet-explorer-7-beta-2-released#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:29:00 +0000 garrettc Here's the IEBlog entry or just go straight to the download page. Ho hum, there goes the next couple of weeks while we get some empirical testing done.

Details of the CSS parser fixes can be found on the IEBlog here and here.

Update: a link to the release notes would probably help too.

]]> Here’s the IEBlog entry or just go straight to the download page. Ho hum, there goes the next couple of weeks while we get some empirical testing done.

Details of the CSS parser fixes can be found on the IEBlog here and here.

Update: a link to the release notes would probably help too.

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