Archive for March, 2008
Quick note on mobile web design
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Before, you check: no, I haven’t made a handheld style sheet for this site yet, hopefully in the near future. Anyway, I’ve been reading up on some user interface principles in the past few months and have been talking up designing for mobile devices. First, I was looking into Fitts’s Law (I’ve seen it spelled [...]
Tags: CSS, fitts, mobile, usability
Posted in Browsers, Web Development | 3 Comments »
Manipulating Opacity
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Any one who has worked with CSS opacity has, most likely run into this problem. Using: div{ filter:alpha(opacity=60); -moz-opacity:0.60; opacity:0.60; } to make a transparent background. It works great in all browsers, but have you ever tried putting text in that div? Right, it applies the opacity to everything inside the div as well. So [...]
Tags: moz, opacity, tips
Posted in Browsers, Web Development, Web Standards | 4 Comments »
Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Ran into this link today, thought I’d share: Microsoft Standards My thoughts Looks like the IE team created a really complex system to account for all the uproar in the web community. Seems to be a large step in the right direction. Didn’t someone say this would happen? Either way, I still think it’s a [...]
Tags: internet explorer
Posted in Browsers, News, Web Development, Web Standards | No Comments »
