Geek Meet March 29th 2010 – Internet Explorer Evangelist Giorgio Sardo speaking
Time for another Geek Meet, and this time, we’l be trying something new. π
Time for another Geek Meet, and this time, we’l be trying something new. π
Usually when you want a horizontal list, you need to use float
in the CSS code to make it work, with all its drawbacks. However, there is an alternative with display: inline-block
.
I think we can all agree that performance of web sites matters a lot, and slow web sites are very annoying both for developers and, more importantly, end users. Therefore, we need to talk about a newly discovered problem: Internet Explorer, protocols and inclusion of stylesheets.
One thing that is quite nice is that we now have the ability to create gradients in our pages just from CSS code, and without the use of any images.
Last weekend I had the pleasure of going to FOSDEM to give a presentation about HTML5 and to experience a very big open-source conference.
Just to let you know, I will be speaking at FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, Belgium, next Saturday February 6th. I will talk in the Mozilla Developer Room and give an introduction to HTML5, which will be followed by HTML5 demos by Paul Rouget.
If you are attending, please come along and say hi! π
I know, I know, there has definitely been some time since the last Geek Meet. But believe me, this one will make up for the wait! π
Man has always been inspired by things moving around and giving away noises, so it was just a matter of time before video content showed up on the web. For a number of years, Flash was the de-facto standard of showing video, but now, with HTML5, the video
element has made its way into our lives.
The other day I sort of had an epiphany, a revelation if you will, which made me realize something hard to accept: Internet Explorer will always be there throughout my entire career working with Internet.
To follow up on the topic of cutting down the number of HTTP requests that I mentioned in my posts How to improve your web site performance β tips & tricks to get a good YSlow rating and How to reduce the number of HTTP requests, I wanted to put together a good list of tools and approaches to concatenate and minify CSS and JavaScript files in different developing environments.
As you might be aware of, I believe web site performance is truly a critical success factor, and I have written about it before in How to improve your web site performance β tips & tricks to get a good YSlow rating
Looking at the design of most web pages today, almost exclusively all of them include some semi-transparency of elements. However, getting the desired effect in CSS is harder than one might think.