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Use less DIV, use more HTML - Part Deux

posted on 29 March 2007 (04:08 PM)

Arjan Eising posted an interesting comment to my previous article:

Nice job done on this... but what will happen when you don't use the body element for instance? While it is not needed to markup your text valid...

This article provides an answer.

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Use less DIV, use more HTML

posted on 26 March 2007 (09:49 PM)

I always try to write my HTML as clean as possible. This means, among other things, the following:

  • Always try and find the most semantic elements and attributes for the job
  • Don't use too many redundant div elements, none if possible

The latter item will be the subject of this article. I've been playing around with using the HTML element in my CSS rules lately, and it turns out to be one helluva flexible element. We really have to start using BODY and HTML as the block-level elements they are!

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Original new CAPTCHA

posted on 12 March 2007 (10:57 PM)

Tired of CAPTCHA's? A Dutch paper reported an interesting new development in Internet authorisation today, involving homeless cats and dogs.

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Broken comments

posted on 04 March 2007 (06:23 PM)

Whatstyle has recently updated its MySQL version to version 5. Yay!

The upgrade was not without bumps and bruises however...

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A quick note on unobtrusive Javascript

posted on 01 March 2007 (12:49 PM)

For Javascript to work truely unobtrusive, a webpage should remain usable at all times. This means that a page should work if:

  • Javascript is enabled
  • Javascript is disabled
  • The required Javascript function is unavailable

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