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The Zen attachment

Posted in Usability, Accessibility, Browsers, CSS, JavaScript by Munter on the January 30th, 2007

This is a small story about the beauty of simple solutions. It is the story about an elaborate problem set where each solution gets more complex, and doesnt really solve the main issue. In the end a stroke of genious solves the problem with only a 16 byte size increase. Keep It Simple Stupid

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Float and clear in theory

Posted in CSS, (X)HTML by reieRMeister on the February 12th, 2006

The CSS properties float and clear empower you to create lightweight and flexible layouts while keeping your markup sleak and logic. But floats easily may end up in unexpected behaviours if you do not know what you are doing. In this post I will summarize many of the findings I have read all over the web.

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Using object fallback

Posted in Flash, (X)HTML by Munter on the January 26th, 2006

Many people want to use flash or other similar plugins, that arent guaranteed to have support by the users browser. The defacto standard seems to be to use Frontpage or Dreamweavers default object export, which of course is neither standards compatible, userfriendly or using any of the cool behaviors the object tag really supplies.

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