So there I was skimming through my usual list of websites on another boring day when this headline caught my eye:
Best CSS zen garden file ever?
My head spun furiously. Could it be possible? You be the judge! Let me warn you though, that a sense of humor is required to appreciate the screenshot below.
Hungry for more? View the site in its full, animated glory!
Of course, there had to be an explanation for this madness, right? Apparently the design, entitled “Geocities 1996″, is by Bruce Lawson. He did it back in 2004 out of nostalgia. He writes:
The CSS Zen Garden has been highly useful to me in demonstrating the value of standards when attempting to convince my reluctant colleagues to abandon tables. Thanks Mr. Shea!
However, it’s also been a major pain in the arse, as Nongyaw, friends and family now expect every site I make for them to look as good as the zen garden submissions. As a design-challenged individual, I’ve found myself almost nostalgic for the multi-coloured, multi-typefaced gif-ridden designs I used to see in 1996 when I moved to Thailand and first used the web, back in the days when Netscape 3.0 was the coolest browser out.
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I hope that made your day. It surely did for me!
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Fans of the swiss army knife of web development Firebug will be happy to hear that this wonderful Firefox add-on has added another blade to its arsenal. With the help of the Firescope add-on, it can now provide CSS and HTML reference in a snap. Just right-click on any tag and click on the context menu to perform a lookup. The tool appears to have been developed by the web gurus over at SitePoint, so tool has links to further information on the SitePoint Reference web site.
The tool is also searchable. You can:
… search for HTML elements, HTML attributes, or CSS properties (or any combination). The search happens live as you type, so usually you’ll only have to type one or two letters to get the results you want.
Check out the screenshots:
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Looks like Microsoft is the latest to be guilty of a failed redesign. Their current homepage iteration sports a table-based layout circa 1998.
They’ve also released a beta preview of their new new homepage – which you can view only with Internet Explorer. (When I attempted to view the preview site in Firefox, I was simply redirected to the existing homepage.) The preview site appears to use semantic markup, although the source has been compacted down to only a few lines, so it’s nearly impossible to read. And with no Web Developer extension in IE, outlining all block-level elements (or all table cells) isn’t an option.
Funny that with the IE 7 team touting how standards-compliant the new browser will be, the Microsoft homepage flies in the face of standards. (Is that for-real ironic or only Alanis ironic?) Having worked for a few large corporations, I understand that one department’s products can appear to be the antithesis of another department’s, with the worker bees in both departments being none the wiser. Still, this is pretty egregious, given the emphasis Microsoft claims to be placing on web standards.
Although… we’ve been there before with Microsoft, haven’t we? Perhaps these things are cyclical.
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It’s true that IE is the most notorious browser for inconsistencies, incompatibilities, and bugs. But the fact remains that no two browsers are created equal, and while IE is the most likely to cause headaches in the course of development, other browsers can be culprits, as well.
If you run into a major roadblock, Rafael Lima’s CSS Browser Selector could be your saving grace. A tiny bit of Javascript (less than 1kb!) determines the user’s browser and creates an accordingly-named class. From there, it’s simply a matter of applying the styles that were written for that particular browser. For example:
.ie .example {
background-color: yellow
}
.gecko .example {
background-color: gray
}
.opera .example {
background-color: green
}
.konqueror .example {
background-color: blue
}
.webkit .example {
background-color: black
}
.example {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background-color: brown;
}
The colored box on the CSS Browser Selector page gets the point across better than anything else, though. Open the page in a few different browsers to see for yourself.
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Love him or hate him, John C. Dvorak has written an article concerning the topic of this blog. John is bugged by CSS. The idea is great, it just falls apart in practice noting how Firefox displays CSS differently from Internet Explorer, which displays it differently from Opera he says.
“Everyone loses here, from users who can’t understand why things look screwy, to developers who can’t get CSS to do the job right, to baffled content providers.And what’s being done about it? Nothing! Another fine mess from the standards bodies.”
If we could get atleast two of the popular browsers on the same page, than we would be set. Imagine if IE and Firefox rendered code the same way. Every other browser would be forced to follow or die a slow and miserable death.
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While we’re on the subject of new browsers…
- Firefox 2 beta 1 is now available as a developer preview, for testing purposes only. (I guess that’s a little redundant, isn’t it?) Its features include: support for Javacsript 1.7; inline spell checking in text boxes; and the ability to reopen accidentally-closed tabs (I definitely need that one, with my command-W-happy fingers).
- Opera 9 has been released, with a lot of cool new features. To name just a few, it boasts built-in BitTorrent, thumbnail site preview, and one-click ad blocking. And there’s more, so much more!
- All the cool kids are talking about Flock, with its built-in blog integration and photobar. If that doesn’t have “Web 2.0” written all over it, I don’t know what does.
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