CSS

Floats Collapsing? Fear Not, Developer.

Jeffrey Olchovy — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:55:46 -0400

If there are any late approaching developers who are just getting their feet wet with proper declarative markup, they may find themselves running back to table based coding quicker than they expected. Most browsers handle CSS quite differently from each, and when working with such temperamental on-page elements like HTML forms, many developers start running for the hills.

Using nested tables for forms, however, is semantically incorrect. According to the W3C, if you are not marking up tabular data, you should not be using table based markup.

Taming the Wild Wild Web

Jeffrey Olchovy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:02:54 -0400

I recently started guest blogging at ITKnowledgeExchange under a column called "Taming the Wild Wild Web." Ill give a formal introduction to the column here only because I'll be discussing largely the same topics and development best practices I do here:

Cascading Style Sheets, Play-Doh and LEGOs

Jeffrey Olchovy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:30:59 -0400

What do those three have in common?

Everything and nothing.

I recently wrote about my preferred way of organizing CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and unlike the other articles on the topic, I'm not talking about organizing your code after you complete it - you know, like tidying up indents and sticking flags all around. I mean, yes, you do this as you write but to what extent?

See, I'm going for organization during the property and value declaration process. Now this is a topic I have yet to see get exposure.