Don’t use “!important”
In CSS, the “!important” suffix was originally intended to provide a method of overriding author stylesheets. Users could define their own “user stylesheets” and could use this suffix to give their...
View ArticleFixing “:focus” in Internet Explorer
Currently, Internet Explorer doesn’t support ‘:focus‘ within CSS selectors, a dynamic pseudo-class implemented in CSS2. The Anchor and most form elements (input, textarea etc.) support this psuedo...
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“Grayscaling” in non-IE browsers
This started out as a little experiment and eventually turned into quite an endeavor. The task was simple enough; to emulate Internet Explorer’s ‘grayscale‘ filter in all non-IE browsers. The solution,...
View ArticleBuilding SIML: A new markup language
A few weeks ago I set about creating a new markup language. I wanted to learn more about language parsing, grammars, and the various difficulties involved. I also had a very specific idea of what I...
View ArticleSonic & The State Of Spinners
Over a year ago I released Sonic, a JavaScript Canvas utility for making loading spinners. I’ve used it in a couple of my own projects and was pleased with the result but I quickly became aware that...
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