Archive for January 2008

Take-away photo and image positioning CSS styles for blogs — idea for a plugin

January 28th • 5 Comments • Under: Design Suggetions, WordPress • Tags: ,

Illustration: CSS Take-Away WordPress plugin After reading Kim’s comment regarding the Morning Racer theme, I had an idea of how to achieve a consistent image and photo placement in a WordPress blog even if you decide to change the theme.

The solution would be a plugin which would provide a “standard” set of CSS classes for styling different image (and other element) positioning.

The great thing is that you could use these CSS classnames with any theme you like as long as you have the plugin enabled. It would be also possible to specify a prefared classname prefix (for example, kd-wide, mo-withborder-a or pa-image-a) so that the plugin’s CSS doesn’t mess with the theme’s CSS. It could also contain CSS styles for lists (like the “flat” and “spaced” ones used on this blog), “important” messages, etc.

A kind of a portable image positioning thing. And you wouldn’t have to learn new CSS classnames or image layout ideas offered by different theme authors.

What do you think? Maybe you have a suggestion of other items (apart from images and lists) that you would like to have special styling.

Got a meta in a heada’ — supporting standards and welcoming IEn where n = 1…∞

January 25th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes • Tags:

So instead of writing another post about how good or bad the proposed IE’s meta tag is, I actually added it to the <head>. Some say — you don’t have to, if using HTML5, while I say — do IE6 and IE7 know what <progress> is?

Browser Versions as a Switch of Rendering Modes — the Verdict

January 24th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes

I have thought about the suggestion to use browser version as a rendering-mode switch in IE8 for more then 24 hours now. Here is the verdict.

IE8 Version Targeting — Understanding and Discussing the Arguments

January 23rd • No Comments • Under: Understanding Web, Web Critique • Tags:

Illustration: Prefered Browser Version Definition (BROVER) — do we need it? In defense of version targeting is a follow-up article by Jeffrey Zeldman to his previous post and the topic of browser version targeting feature planned for the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8. His arguments (in favor of version targeting) might seem to be valid at first, but they are not enough in comparison to those who are against the version targeting.

Let’s start with an example (dates and browser versions are made up and are not important to illustrate the point). I made a website a two years ago (in 2006) and followed the W3C standards which resulted in a perfect content rendering in most of the standards aware browsers. Read more »

Browser Version Targeting vs. the Web Standards

January 23rd • 1 Comment • Under: Understanding Web, Web Critique • Tags: , ,

Illustration: Note from the IE Team and Friends — from Web Standards to Browser Standards. The following articles in the latest issue of the A List Apart magazine explain the necessity of browser targeting with the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8, which is expected to be the most standards aware browser from Microsoft to date.

To me the idea of browser targeting seems absolutely absurd, and reasons for that are so many that it will require another post to explain them all in detail. Here are just a few. Read more »

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