HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2: An Article Roundup and Poll

Much like CSS3, widespread adoption for the next-gen web languages is a distant mirage. Still, it is important to stay educated on these things and even participate in these early stages while things are still malleable. Rather than re-hash everything here, here is a roundup of articles talking about the two major new “competing” formats. [...]

My Big Ol’ List of Design/Development, HTML/CSS and Personal Blogs I Read

I’ve had a few folks ask recently what other sites I read. Like many of you I suspect, I’m a bit of a junkie when it comes to design & tech news. I really enjoy popping open Google Reader and having a nice amount of articles I can browse through. It’s really amazing how much [...]

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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 [...]

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CSS Qualified Selectors

Shaun Inman has an idea for a submission to the CSS3 Working Group he is calling CSS Qualified Selectors. Definitely read the article to get the full low-down, but I’ll summarize: this is a way to add styling to a parent element based on its children. For example, if you have a list [...]

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Homer Simpson with Pure CSS

“If something’s hard to do, then it’s not worth doing.” - Homer Simpson