It’s The Final Countdown

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Microsoft themselves is tracking and promoting the demise of IE 6. China? 34.5%? Seriously?

And I can’t help but hum a little Europe:

We’re leaving together
But still it’s farewell
And maybe we’ll come back
To earth, who can tell?

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Quick Thoughts on Sharing Buttons

Randomly this week, I’ve had more-than-normal number of comments from folks who ask me something like:

Went to go tweet/share a blog post of yours, and noticed you don’t have any of those on your site. Interesting, any reason why?

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Show and Edit Style Element

Kind of a classic little trick for ya’ll today. You know the <style></style> blocks you can put in the <head></head> of your HTML to do styling? You don’t actually have to put those in your head, they can be anywhere …

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Sans-Serif

Declaring just 'sans-serif' as the font-family means you'll get Helvetica on Mac, Arial on PC, and still have the good generic keyword fallback.
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Generated Background Noise

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jQuery plugin by Daniel Rapp to fill any element with background noise. Uses <canvas> to create, then turns it into an image and sets a repeating background-image. Even if you’d be against using this on a production site, it’s …

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Stacking Order of Multiple Backgrounds

Multiple background images is a cool feature of CSS3. The syntax is easy, you just comma separate them. I find it’s easiest/best to use the background shorthand property so you can declare the position and repeating and whatnot and keep …

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CSS Progress Bars

Just a fun experiment creating progress bars made with just CSS3 (no images). Loads of progressive nerdery packed into one little element.
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Bokeh with CSS3 Gradients

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Bokuh is the effect of backgrounds in photographs with deep depth of field. Shapes round out and get blurry. Think of a really out of focus picture of a lighted Christmas tree. Divya Manian creates that effect in WebKit by …

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I found it!

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Funny article from Thierry Koblentz on CSS selector efficiency. Although there are cases where multiple ID selectors are needed, a selector like #nav li ul li a#active is almost certainly too heavy and inefficient. …

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