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The graceful degradation myth [UPDATE]

Watch out for JavaScript and CSS interdependence, you just might be locking people out.

Removing Dotted Links

They say you learn something new each day. I just learned how to remove dotted links in CSS thanks to Nathan Smith.

Sidebar Semantic Shenanigans

The ever-present sidebar. It’s a staple of the ‘net. You see it everywhere. It’s an accepted design convention allowing visitors to quickly recognize it among millions of sites as a place to find all kinds of auxiliary information.
Now we’re all aware of the importance of keeping our classes clean, meaning that they shouldn’t contain presentational [...]

Automated Multi-Column Lists: CSS Swag Redux

In A List Apart: CSS Swag: Multi-Column Lists, Paul Novitski walks us through the process of making ordered and unordered lists wrap vertically. A behaviour that modern browsers don’t support natively. Three of the examples (4, 5, & 6) make use of list item level class names that ultimately control the position of the columns. [...]

(AdSense) Iframe float flicker fix

Update: Looks like Firefox 1.5 no longer suffers from the bug so go upgrade now!!
Update: This solution may not work as advertised. I ended up not using it in my own project. Watch this space for the solution I did use.
Up until a few days ago I thought that this bug was unique to the [...]

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