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Archive for May, 2008



How To: Resizeable Background Image

My friend Richard recently came to me with a simple CSS question:
Is there a way to make a background image resizeable? As in, fill the background of a web page edge-to-edge with an image, no matter the size of the browser window. Also, have it resize larger or smaller as the browser window changes. Also, [...]

Links of Interest

Line Height Abnormal
Eric Meyer digs into some of the peculiarities of line-height:
Here’s the punchline: the effects of declaring line-height: normal not only vary from browser to browser, which I had expected—in fact, quantifying those differences was the whole point—but they also vary from one font face to another, and can also vary within a given [...]

Redirecting to a Splash Page ( …but only once! ) with Cookies

Splash pages can be annoying. You know the ones… like being forced to watch some advertisement before you can see the page you are trying to get to. Or maybe some fancy introduction to a site that you are automatically redirected to every time you visit. Great.
There are some circumstances where a splash page can [...]

Sponsored Feature: Flipping Book

Flash can do some amazing stuff. Stuff that can leave even the handiest CSS and Javascript developer drooling with envy. We then sulk back to our caves because, alas, Flash is not the development path we have chosen. This is a foreign world who’s amazing feats are out-of-grasp lest we start learning a whole new [...]

Poll Results: What Javascript Library Do You Use?

…and the jQ’s have it! The the time of this writing over 1500 people have responded to our latest poll “What Javascript Library Do You Use?” making it our biggest poll yet. jQuery is the run-away victor with over 50% of the votes. What does this mean? Just that the beautiful and intelligent readers of [...]

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