Category Archives: CSS

June 13, 2007

Reading blogs on a mac using Firefox– also posted in Misc

I’ve been on a Mac (OSX) for a little while now and generally I’m having a nice time, except when it comes to reading some (but only some) blogs! We all know that font sizes are different across browser and platform, but Firefox on a mac occasionally makes life a little difficult particularly when it [...]

September 29, 2006

Firefox Web Developer Toolbar

Scott Stroz (aka boyzoid) has a nice little post on the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar by Chris Pederick. The toolbar (which has been around for ages) is a must have for any web developer, I thought I’d post some of the tools including their shortcuts which I use regularly. CSS Viewing CSS – Ctrl+Shift+C Opens [...]

August 25, 2006

HTML pre-launch flight check– also posted in (X)HTML

AnyBrowser have a lot of tools for you to use when validating and preparing your website for deployment including: Screen Size Test Meta Tag Creator HTML Validation Link checking Engine View (See how your site might get listed by search engine spiders.) Not a bad list, don’t forget that ALL web developers should validate their [...]

June 20, 2006

Flash of Unstyled Content– also posted in (X)HTML

The lovely people (person?) over at Blue Robot have coined a term ‘FOUC’; or Flash of Unstyled Content. This is that annoying ‘bug’ in Windows IE where a user can see the entire body of the page their trying to view ‘unstyled’ (particularly for page layout) for a moment before the stylesheet kicks in. If [...]