Using overflow:auto to Clear Floated Content in CSS

For a long time, I used something like <div style="clear:both"></div> or its class equivalent to clear floated content in layouts. I knew, at some level, there were better solutions, but as these things go– I had deadlines to meet, had a working solution and there was never any inducement to look for a new one. […]

Yahoo! Posts an Interesting Illustration of the Lang Attribute.

In the post announcing that Yahoo! search results now has natural language support, the YDN blog offers up two audio samples that illustrate a screen reader reading mixed language text with and without the lang attribute. As you can plainly hear, the lang=”fr” attribute makes a great difference in the performance of the screen reader […]

Acid3 Test Released. I Took Some Screen Captures. Lots of Fail.

Screen Shots These were done with browsercam, so the test may or may not have fully run its course by the time the 15 second delay was up. Still, it’s not like any of these browsers were close, so a few seconds isn’t going to save them if, in fact, they were cut off before […]

Two Columns of Variable But Equal Height Using Simple CSS and a Couple of DIVs

If, like me, you cut your web development teeth during while CSS was still in its infancy, you likely put together a lot of sites that featured two (or more) columns decorated with bgcolors or background images that flowed together in lockstep, always retaining equivalent height. It was pretty standard and basically came along free […]

YSlow Performance Grades for 200 Top Web Sites

What follows is a YSlow based performance survey of 200 top web sites. The list was seeded seeded by the the Compete Attention 200, a list based on the amount of time people spend at certain sites- as opposed to page views, etc. It’s a little out of date, but it’s as good a list […]