I’m a fan of the Sandbox WordPress theme because it does so much to separate application logic from design, and a few small changes to the CSS can make huge changes to the look of the site. I think that’s the idea behind Yahoo! Developer Network’s Grids CSS library. That is, well structured HTML allows [...]

Posted February 21, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: css, framework, Sandbox, web design, wordpress themes, YUI. Be the first one.

.transparent_class {
opacity: 0.5; /* the standards compliant attribute that all browsers should recognize, but… */
filter:alpha(opacity=50); /* for IE */
-khtml-opacity: 0.5; /* for old Safari (1.x) */
-moz-opacity:0.5; /* for old skool Netscape Navigator */
}

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Posted December 14, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: browsers, css, opacity, transparency, web design. 4 Comments.

It was part of a long thread among WordPress hackers over the summer and fall, but this post at VulgarisOverIP just reminded of it: minify promises to be an easy way to compress external CSS and JavaScript without adding extra steps to your develop/deploy process. No, really, look at the usage instructions. (To be clear, [...]

Posted December 5, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: code, compression, css, js, minify, performance, script, web development. One Comment.

It turns out the Internet Explorer doesn’t properly support CSS’s position: fixed. Google led me to the following:

How To Create - Making Internet Explorer use position: fixed;
doxdesk.com: software: fixed.js
Fixed Positioning for Windows Internet Explorer

The DoxDesk solution looks promising and simple, but I think bugs elsewhere in my layout are preventing it from working. It’s time [...]

Posted September 15, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: bugs, css, css support, doxdesk, ie, ie bug, ie bugs, ie css bug, internet exploder, internet explorer, position fixed, workaround. One Comment.