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Using Dean Edwards’ IE7 Script
Update Dean Edwards has updated his scripts. I have written a new entry describing the updated IE7 scripts. At An Event Apart Boston, Eric Meyer discussed how IE7 is quickly being adopted. Since this is the case, we can treat IE6 as more of a secondary browser now. We should all start to use the Dean Edwards IE7 script to bring IE6 up to par with standards compliant browsers. The history behind the…
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Spider-Man 3
I was ordered by my fellow “Front-End Developer”, Nate, to write up a little blurb about what I thought about Spider-Man 3. So I caught the 10:45 showing, and the theater was packed. I am going to go ahead and predict that it is going to break the record for weekend gross. But yeah about the movie, I would definitely say I enjoyed it. While it is no movie that is going to win any award,…
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Improved Navigation Image Replacement
So my co-worker at work today was slicing a design, and the designer said that the navigation had to be images. Being the good little accessibility people that we were, we were trying to figure out a way to use images, but have text also show up when images are disabled. So my co-worker went with the quick fix (for now), a JavaScript onmouseover solution, and I told him that it was lame. I told him…
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Improved JavaScript Striping
I am sure everyone has seen the JavaScript Splintered Striper, which was shown during the 2005 24 Ways to Impress Your Friends, or at least some variation of it. A quick Google for javascript striper came up with a ton of results. Well, I ran into a little problem with the splintered striper, and I have a solution to the problem. The problem occurred if you had multiple class names on the element you…
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I Took The Web Design Survey, 2007
I hope all you web people took the A List Apart 2007 Web Design Survey. All it can do is get some wonderful statistics for us web nerds. Plus, you get this sweet button. So I urge everyone who has anything to do with the web to fill out the survey. I did struggled with one question about what my specific job title is, because there has been some recent debate about what exactly it is. At my job, my…
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CSS Attribute Selectors Explained
So, I had played around with CSS attribute selectors a little bit before I went to An Event Apart Boston, but I have a much better grasp of them now. I gave a brief overview in my An Event Apart Boston Summary. Currently, you really have to do some digging to figure out exactly how to use them, but I hope this article explains them all better. General Information Basically, attribute selectors allow…
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An Event Apart Boston Summary
So I am finally getting around to writing up a summary of my time at An Event Apart Boston. I can’t even express how much that I learned. It was amazing to see so many respectable names in the web design/development community all speak. Thank god for my company, Matrix Group International for paying for myself and two co-workers to go to the event. So I thought I would give a quick run-down of…
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An Event Apart Boston
So my company is paying for two other webmasters and myself to go to An Event Apart Boston. It is not too often that you can get this many amazing names in the field of web development together in one place. I think I am really looking forward to the more design-centered events like: Redesigning Your Way Out of a Paper Bag by Jason Santa Maria Good vs. Great Design by Cameron Moll Selling Design by…
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Problems with Commenting
So in the quest to abolish the www from my URL, I seemed to have broken Movable Type comments. I added the following to my .htaccess file: RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.trevordavis.net$ [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://trevordavis.net/$1 [R=301,L] That means whenever anyone tried to go to www.trevordavis.net, they were…
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The Rise of Flash Again
This week, there was an A List Apart article called Semantic Flash: Slippery When Wet. When I first started learning about Web Standards, I hated flash. I thought that it was really all just bells and whistles and nothing useful. As time has passed, I have realized that there are some situations where flash can be useful. First, there was the sIFR: Scalable Inman Flash Replacement. Earlier this week,…
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