Sliding Doors of CSS. A rarely discussed advantage of CSS is the ability to layer background images, allowing them to slide over each other to create certain effects. CSS2’s current state requires a separate HTML element for each background image. In many cases, typical markup for common interface components has already provided several elements for our use. Article Continues Below One of those cases is tabbed navigation. It’s time to take back control over the tabs which are continually growing in popularity as a primary means of site navigation. What if we could take the exact same markup from the tabs above, and turn them into something like this: With simple styling, we can. Where’s the Innovation?
Many of the CSS-based tabs I’ve seen suffer from the same generic features: blocky rectangles of color, maybe an outline, a border disappears for the current tab, a color changes for the hover state. Prior to a more widespread adoption of CSS, we started seeing a lot of innovation in navigation design. Bulletproof Web Design › Example Code. How to size text using ems | Clagnut § Typography · CSS techniques. Text for the screen is sized with CSS in terms of pixels, ems or keywords. As most of us know, sizing with pixels is easy: get your selector and give it a font-size – no more thought required. Sizing with keywords is more complicated and requires a few workarounds, but you’re in luck as the techniques are well documented. That leaves ems. At this point people often leg it. ‘Ems are too inconsistent,’ they say, ‘they’re too hard; they never work.’
Well that may be the received wisdom, but if ever the was a case of FUD then this is it. Why ems? If the world were an ideal place, we’d all use pixels. Keyword-based text sizing will allow all browsers to resize text so this is a possibility, but I don’t find it gives me the precision that pixels would give me. Get on with it OK let’s dive into ems. This takes 16px down to 10px, which apart from being less huge is a nice round number. And so to the final tweak and the bit folks seem to find most tricky: dealing with nested elements. Update: Typography - Features of TrueType and OpenType. UTF-8 vs. iso-8859-1. ISO-8859-1 vs UTF-8 Website Technology Issues forum at WebmasterWorld.
UTF-8. The official IANA code for the UTF-8 character encoding is UTF-8.[6] History[edit] By early 1992 the search was on for a good byte-stream encoding of multi-byte character sets. The draft ISO 10646 standard contained a non-required annex called UTF-1 that provided a byte-stream encoding of its 32-bit code points. This encoding was not satisfactory on performance grounds, but did introduce the notion that bytes in the range of 0–127 continue representing the ASCII characters in UTF, thereby providing backward compatibility with ASCII. In July 1992, the X/Open committee XoJIG was looking for a better encoding. In August 1992, this proposal was circulated by an IBM X/Open representative to interested parties.
UTF-8 was first officially presented at the USENIX conference in San Diego, from January 25 to 29, 1993. Google reported that in 2008 UTF-8 (misleadingly labelled "Unicode") became the most common encoding for HTML files.[9][10] Description[edit] Examples[edit] Codepage layout[edit] ISO/IEC 8859-1. ISO-8859-1 is the IANA preferred name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. The following other aliases are registered for ISO-8859-1: iso-ir-100, csISOLatin1, latin1, l1, IBM819, CP819. Coverage[edit] Each character is encoded as a single eight-bit code value. These code values can be used in almost any data interchange system to communicate in the following European languages (with a few exceptions due to missing characters, as noted): Languages with complete coverage[edit] Languages commonly supported but with incomplete coverage[edit] Quotation marks[edit] For some languages listed above the correct typographical quotation marks are missing, as only « », " ", and ' ' are included.
History[edit] ISO 8859-1 was based on the Multinational Character Set used by Digital Equipment Corporation in the popular VT220 terminal. In 1985 Commodore adopted ISO 8859-1 for its new AmigaOS operating system. Codepage layout[edit] Similar character sets[edit] Css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design. Css Zen Garden Resources. Skip to: Navigation | Content | Sidebar | Footer mezzoblue CSS Zen Garden Resource Guide This page used to contain a list of links to various CSS-related resources. Because of many changes to basic CSS techniques and methods since it was first built in 2003, the former list has been retired. Instead, here are other resources that offer more modern tips and inspiration.
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