Dustin Diaz is getting naked again! Well at least his blog is. CSS Naked Day is back for a third year. Head on over and sign up then strip away your CSS on April 9th.
Hey Dustin - any chance we’ll see GMail going naked this year?
A (sort of) Quick Introduction to making your own Adium Message Style is a tutorial I am going to put on my todo list! Adium is my favorite IM client for OSX and I just found out that you can customize and create your own themes using nothing but HTML and CSS (and a sprinkle of XML). Pretty cleaver of the smart people at Adium to embrace web standards and use them as a tool for extending their platform!
Kevin Hale from Particletree reminds us about Rediscovering the Button Element. I have to admit that I rarely use the button element, but after reading his article I think I’ll start to use it more. One perceived advantage is that it allows you to create buttons that render exactly the same across all platforms.
Joe Hewitt has just released a Public Beta of Firebug 1.0. Firebug is a kick-ass tool that every web developer/designer must have in his or her toolbox. If you have used Firebug in the past you will absolutely love some of the new features like JavaScript profiling, live HTML and CSS editing, and CSS metrics visualiztion. My favorite new feature is the one that lets you open Firebug in a separate window (perfect for those of us with more than one monitor).
Validaty is a Firefox extenstion from Henrik Gemal that provides one-click HTML validation from your toolbar. If validation succeeds, the toolbar button turns green, if bad, it turns red and gives you the option to view the validation report.
Jehiah Czebotar has written a nice article that illustrates a best practice for opening popups windows. He offers a solution that is degradable and semantically correct.
Over the last few years there have been many studies on the popularity of authoring techniques such as what HTML ids and classes are most common. The most recent study was done by Google. Their study on Web Authoring Statistics is quite interesting and shows many statistics for authoring behaviour in the following groups…
You can upload multiple files with a single file element using some DOM scripting and CSS by following this very simple tutorial. The result is a very usable file upload interface!
The Man in Blue presents widgEditor, which is a standards compliant HTML editor that can be embedded in any web application that you create. It replaces existing textareas with an improved editing pane using JavaScript. If you don’t have JavaScript it degrades gracefully and appears to work well across browsers and platforms.
A new Firefox extension that I find myself using each and every day is the Html Validator for Firefox. The extension adds HTML validation based on HTML Tidy to the Firefox web browser. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing and the details of the errors are seen when looking the HTML source of the page.
[link via Andy Jarrett]
