Catching Up
Catching Up
Catching Up
28 Oct 2003 — 0 Comments
What's up Yo! Things have been a bit crazy this last week with the 2003-2004 NBA season ramping up... No, wait. I've been working. That is the correct answer I was looking for. Okay, yeah, and there has been some fantasy basketball involved in my time away, but I'm here again.
For those who have not already seen the following, each and every last one deserves a read (or at least a glance):
Of significant note, A List Apart has relaunched with a fresh design and three sparkling new articles. While all three are wonderfully worthwhile, if you're looking for masterful new ways to implement bleeding-edge design techniques with CSS, look no further than Doug Bowman's Sliding Doors of CSS. In the article, Doug describes some masterful techniques to create beautifully shaded navigational tabs that are light-years beyond most tab-based interfaces created with CSS. Most remarkable is that the text within the tabs is true text and can be resized within your browser, creating a larger or smaller graphical tab accordingly. Yes, style and accessibility can coexist together.
On a similar note, Dave Shea has implemented a new navigation scheme of a different variety at mezzoblue featuring drop-down menus and transparent images... All created entirely with CSS (as in, no Javascript required). Dave relies on the use of child- and adjacent-selectors within CSS to accomplish this. While Internet Explorer does not support these characteristics of CSS, the code is simply ignored, and the basic, functioning navigation is still displayed. It's still not bug-free, but if you have Safari or Firebird, you're in for a look at the future of CSS-based design.
And finally, for your "Microsoft Stupidity" reading, please look no further than the PBS report of Microsoft's absolute ignorance regarding Open Source software. When you're finished there, skip on over to Daring Fireball to find out what Microsoft really thinks about digital music. Both articles will leave you scratching your head and wondering how a corporation like this doesn't just spontaneously combust due to ego overload.
