Category Archives: Web Development

6 Firefox 3.5 updates of interest

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Estelle Weyl

Firefox 3.5 CSS 3 Selector Support Firefox 3.5 was released today. Like the beta version that I tested a few months ago, FF3.5 supports all CSS3 selectors. See the CSS3 Browser support grid. This is great news, and makes us … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Browsers, CSS (including hacks), Web Development | 1 Comment

90 CSS Properties, Values and Browser Support

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Estelle Weyl

CSS Properties Index Below is every CSS 2.1 Property, all the possible values for that propery, and the support for each property value from grade-A browsers This is a work still in progress (i.e. unfinished) , but if you find … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, CSS (including hacks), Web Development | 6 Comments

CSS content, counter-increment & counter-reset

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Estelle Weyl

I have never used the counter or increment properties since they aren’t supported in IE7 or earlier, nor are the :before pseudo elements, or content property. Since IE8 does support all of these, soon we may be able to include … Continue reading →

Posted in Web Development | 12 Comments

22 Questions to Ask Before Developing a Website

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Estelle Weyl

I developed this “Website Development Questionnaire” in 2002. It is old, but it still serves me well, so I thought I would share. I don’t actually add the bold or italic sections below. Those were added here to help you … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Practices, SEO, UED, Web Development | 41 Comments

IE8 – What you need to know

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Estelle Weyl

IE8 CSS Support and Rendering Mode, IE8 debugging, etc. IE8 and CSS IE8 compliance mode / preventing IE7 rendering in the IE8 browser IE8 bugs Differences between IE7 compatibility mode and IE8 IE8 CSS Hack IE8 Developer Toolbar (or Firebug … Continue reading →

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WAI-ARIA: Accessible Rich Internet Applications basics

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Estelle Weyl

What is ARIA? ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. With the proliferation of internet applications, there has been an increase in the number of sites requiring javascript that update without page refreshes. This imposes accessiblity issues that weren’t addressed … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, AJAX, Best Practices, Web Development | 1 Comment

CSS Browser Support (iPhone, IE8, IE7 Compliance Mode, FF 3.5 beta & Safari 4 Beta included)

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Estelle Weyl

Note: This article is about CSS selectors. I also have a post on All CSS2.1 Properties and Values, and Broswer Support (huge file, but worth the download time) Update 6/30/09: Firefox 3.5 was released today. Like Safari 3.1 and newer … Continue reading →

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Canonical tag for SEO

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Estelle Weyl

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are now supporting the canonical meta tag as the standard for identifying the actual source of your content: the real URL that you want to recieve page rank for your key terms. Many sites have the … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Practices, SEO, Web Development | 7 Comments

hover pseudoclass for the iPhone

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Estelle Weyl

Since you’re not hovering, there is no hover pseudo class on the iPhone. instead they have touch events. To simulate the :hover pseudo class, include javascript similar to this: var myLinks = document.getElementsByTagName(‘a’); for(var i = 0; i < myLinks.length; … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Practices, CSS (including hacks), HTML, IE7, iPhone, JavaScript, Web Development | 7 Comments

Browser Testing: 3 tools you can’t live without

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Estelle Weyl

Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 don’t render the same. Also, Firebug 1.0 is less buggy than Firebug 1.2. So, at this point, it really is necessary to run multiple versions of Firefox in your development environment, similar to how most … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, firebug, IE7, Web Development | 3 Comments