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Nice use of CSS3 styling.

Posted: Jul 24, 2003, 7:30pm CDT
Modified: January 7, 2004, 7:18:00 pm CST

Stumbled on kadyellebee.com, with a nice skin that utlizes CSS properties that will eventually be in CSS3. This property, for rounding the borders of a box, is currently only viewable in Mozilla. If you run Moz, head on over and check it out. It's a very nice effect without horrible image hacks. Kudos!

[ Posted by dast — css, mozilla ]

Web Standards in the Post-Netscape Age

Posted: Jul 16, 2003, 12:06pm CDT
Modified: January 7, 2004, 7:18:00 pm CST

The news is spreading like wildfire around the Internet that Netscape has been killed by its parent company, AOL. Maybe Netscape was just in the right place in the right time, maybe they were lucky, but they certainly succeeded in changing the way we communicate. Because of Netscape, the World Wide Web has incorrectly become synonymous in the public mind with the Internet and everywhere we go, we are bombarded by the ubiquitous URI for everything from personal to corporate websites.

It's the end of the world as we know it

Sadly, with the death of Netscape, AOL also fired all of the Mozilla developers they had employed. So we are left to wonder, what will become of our shiny, new web browser, the David that was to take on Goliath and win the battle for real standards conformance? Will Mozilla gasp its dying breath and sputter out? Will those of us who disdain proprietary operating systems and value real conformance to established open standards on the Web be forced to use Konqueror? Or will the World Wide Web sink back into the dark ages of standards divergence?

Here -- he says he's not dead!

Thankfully, Mozilla lives on with the Mozilla Foundation, and because the source to Mozilla was open anyway, it will always be around. Ultimately, the death of Netscape can't stop the movement for real open standards on the Web. It all hinges on the content producers out there--the choice is ours. We can continue our push for true interoperability, accessibility, and usability. Alternatively, if we lose site of our goal, we can let control slide back into the hands of corporations to proprietize and polute real standards. The choice is clear. If we fail, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

[ Posted by dast — web, browsers, mozilla, css, rants ]

Get a Good browser.

Posted: Apr 13, 2003, 9:19pm CDT
Modified: January 7, 2004, 7:18:00 pm CST

This site relies heavily on CSS2 instead of using tables for layout, so make sure to use a good browser. Internet Explorer 5.x users may experience some rendering faults because IE5.x misimplements the CSS2 box model. Upgrading to IE6 should help solve this problem.

If your browser supports Javascript, click here to have style sheets for this page removed (thanks to Jesse's Bookmarklets site for this trick). Hit reload to refresh the style sheet.

You can use a similar trick to view the style sheets associated with this page by clicking here. Feel free to borrow any techniques used here (or to suggest improvements); this page has been tested in Mozilla 1.0 Linux, Mozilla 1.3 Win32, and IE5.5 Win32.

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[ Posted by dast — web, browsers, mozilla, css, laby ]

 

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