August 2007

Instead of a new bank holiday, why not reclaim St George?

  • August 30, 2007 at 6:37 pm
  • Categories: Citizenship

  • The IPPR is advocating a new bank holiday for November. The recommendation is that it should fall on 12 November, the day after Remembrance Sunday, and focus on honouring the contributions of individuals to society.

Support for CSS3 modules?

  • August 21, 2007 at 5:57 pm
  • Categories: CSS,Web design

  • In case anyone stumbles across this post, I’m looking for a resource that shows which CSS3 modules are supported in which browsers. ccc3.info has started this, but so far they only have a compatibility table for selectors. (They also have a neat online tool for testing which selectors your browser supports.)

Using CSS to add opaque text to transparent backgrounds

  • August 20, 2007 at 6:21 pm
  • Categories: Accessibility,CSS,Voluntary Sector,Web design

  • CSS doesn’t currently allow for an element to have a transparent background with opaque text: the text will also be transparent. On top of that, any child elements will inherit the transparency. But there are ways… I’ve just redesigned this blog (come on, it could be worse), and I wanted the title to sit in [...]

Cross-browser implementation of Web Forms 2.0

  • August 20, 2007 at 3:23 pm
  • Categories: Web design

  • The WHATWG has released a cross-browser implementation of its Web Forms 2.0 specification. As it works (apparently) in a number of browsers, including Firefox and IE7, I shall be having a play with it and will post my thoughts here.

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