Global resets CSS

January 20th, 2008

http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/01/15/resetting-again/ This is a really interesting article from Eric Meyer, I have often used the basic * { margin:0; padding:0; border:0; etc } In my CSS markup, it makes so much more sense to get very specific with the reset and make sure everything is covered. html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; outline: 0; font-size: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; } body ...read more »

Why Accessibility? Because It’s Our Job!

January 10th, 2008

I had an interesting moment at christmas. We have been working like crazy on our new web project (touchlocal.com) to get it live, as part of this I had been covering some basics of accessibility but it had not really been an area we had touched on properly because of the time restraints. So in a moment of madness (or greatness I guess) I fired up my Nan's old school PC with an even older version if IE6 and all the accessibility settings pretty high as they could go so she could view it. I held my breath, worried... To ...read more »

Web standards shake up / browser wars..

January 9th, 2008

There seems to be some real shake ups happening in the web standards word, check some of these links, they provide really interesting reading! Read more here And here