From the Orient

Reading up on XPointer in relation to Adrian’s question about accessing part of an HTML document and I saw the following article, Top Ten Tips to Using XPath and XPointer

Stuart has written some very crafty CSS to reproduce Mark Pilgrim’s images before offsite links idea with pure CSS.

Of course, as Stuart points out, only Mozilla supports the CSS3 selectors, so IE users miss out. When talking about browsers and CSS, the song Born Of Frustration is always playing in the background.

DJ Adams has written a cool tool that can turn Mozilla into a sort of RSS newsreader.

Use the link on his site to add a bookmark to your personal toolbar. When on a site that has a link tag for RSS, click on the link and it adds the RSS feed to your Mozilla sidebar.

Although, I use the blogroll and think it is a better way of reading my blogs, this is a really cool idea.

Note: It didn’t work on dellah at first, and I couldn’t work out why. It took me a while to fix it, but it was the order the link tags appeared in my script. I had to put the RSS one first before it would work.

Jeffrey Zeldman: “Table layouts are harder to maintain and somewhat less forward compatible than CSS layouts. But the combination of simple tables, sophisticated CSS for modern browsers, and basic CSS for old ones has enabled us to produce marketable work that validates “

A no tables layout is fine, but websites for businesses can use tables in conjunction with CSS to provide good design without horrible table hackery.

When you have content that needs to be displayed as a table, use a table. There is nothing wrong with that. Using highly complicated non-standard table code for your layout is the issue.

I managed to lose these links a while ago and have only just round to finding them again. Seen as this is what a weblog is for, here they are.

1. Mozilla Keyboard Shortcuts

2. Keyword searching with Mozilla

3. Mozilla Custom Keywords

I saw it at Aq’s house a few weeks ago and since then a little voice has been quietly whispering in my ear “buy it, buy it, go on buy it”, and now I have have. What it is? Not the Zaurus (although I have ordered one of those, heaven help me), but Eric Meyer’s CSS Book