Published in CSS on Friday, May 7th, 2004
A wrap up of some recently written and noted CSS articles and tools.
John Gallant and Holly Bergevin are up to their bug killing ways, this time helping us mere mortals come to grips with things such as the Peekaboo Bug and the Escaping Floats Bug, and how can be used to help us with some of IE's enigmatic problems. Be sure and check it out!
Over at Clagnut, Richard Rutter talks about Mozilla's DOM inspector:
Amongst other things, it allows you to see which CSS rules are affecting any given element in order of cascade priority.
Hello! How useful is that? I know that will be pretty darn useful for managing the cascade in the CSS files of larger websites. Especially for sites that you haven't worked on in a while.
And, while we're talking about the cascade and Big John and Holly, be sure and have a look at Understanding the Cascade, also a good read (if you're into css, of course!).
Sitepoint's web devlopment books have helped me out on many occasions both for finding a quick solution to a problem but also to level out my knowlegde in weaker areas (JavaScript, I'm looking at you!). I am recommending the following titles from my bookshelf:
I started freelancing by diving in head first and getting on with it. Many years and a lot of experience later I was still able to take away some gems from this book, and there are plenty I wish I had thought of beforehand. If you are new to freelancing and have a lot of questions (or maybe don't know what questions to ask!) do yourself a favor and at least check out the sample chapters.
The author line-up for this book says it all. 7 excellent developers show you how to get your JavaScript coding up to speed with 7 chapters of great theory, code and examples. Metaprogramming with JavaScript (chapter 5 from Dan Webb) really helped me iron out some things I was missing about JavaScript. That said each chapter really helped me to develop my JavaScript skills beyond simple Ajax calls and html insertion with libs like JQuery.
Like the other books listed here, this provides a great reference for the PHP developer looking to have the right answers from the right people at their fingertips. I tend to pull this off the shelf when I need to delve into new territory and usually find a workable solution to keep development moving. This only needs to happen once and you recoup the price of the book in time saved from having to develop the solution or find the right pattern for getting the job done..
Comments and Feedback
Interesting, you\'re living in July already !? How does the future looks like ?
Hint, look at the time stamp on your article.
(after previewing) look at the first line of my comment, something wrong after the you
... and June is always such a good month, I\'m sad that I missed it!
A slip up on the date. My \'admin\' UI consists of phpMyAdmin right now. That date slip up should be sorted when I insert it automagically. The comment things, however, will be dealt with today. Thanks Philippe!