Separation of content and presentation with HTML and CSS

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Almost every day I come across sites which have missed this vital point entirely. They think that just by adding CSS to a site, it's suddenly now much better. This is not the case, and I admit I've been in this category myself in the past.

The whole concept of HTML and CSS is to separate the content of a site, from the presentation. To layer it. This means that there should be absolutely NO content in the CSS, and absolutely NO presentation in the HTML.

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Tags : web, html, css

Last.fm Redesign

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Read the last.fm blog post.

Personally, I'm not a fan of the new look. Maybe it'll grow on me, but for now it just gives off a MySpace kind of vibe (and I *hate* MySpace with a passion). While I don't mind change, as I think it's nice to change things around once in a while to not make it stale and boring, they've changed a *lot* of things, and I'm having trouble finding where everything is. But obviously, that'll change the more I use it, so it'll probably grow on me after a while...

My main gripe at the moment is the width. The old style was variable width, which looked really good on my widescreen monitor. Now I just have loads of whitespace, which seems like a waste.

I do like the new design for the recommendations area though.

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Tags : design, web, music

FontStruct - Build your own fonts.

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"FontStruct is a free font-building tool that lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks."

Pretty nifty stuff!

FontStruct.

Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released

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"Firefox 3 Beta 5 includes more than 750 changes from the previous beta, improving stability and web compatibility, providing platform and user interface enhancements, and resulting in the fastest Firefox ever. Many of these improvements were based on community feedback from the previous beta."

Full Release Notes.

Tags : internet, browsers

WebKit the first to get 100/100 on Acid3

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WebKit has become the first publically available rendering engine to achieve 100/100 on the Acid3 test.

This is a big step forward, with other browsers not far behind. Opera employee David Storey announced yesterday that the Opera browser now achieves a 98% score. With Firefox Beta 4 not too far behind with 71%.

It's not all about the 100/100 score though, the animation also needs to render "smoothly", but I think the meaning of "smoothly" is open for interpretation. I imagine we'll start to see a lot more browsers getting 100% over the next few days. Unfortunately I doubt IE will be in that group, but I can always hope.

EDIT : Seems I spoke too soon, Opera is now at 100%.

Tags : internet, css, browsers

Acid3 Test Released

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The Acid3 Test has been released by the Web Standards Project.

There's an article on DrunkenFist with screenshots of how the most common browsers render the test. From what I can see not a single one passes with 100/100, but Safari 3 gets pretty close with 87. Of course, Internet Explorer fails miserably, but I'd expect nothing less. Firefox 3 doesn't mess up the layout as much as the others, but still only scores 59/100.

It'll be interesting to see how, and if, popular browsers like Firefox and Opera adjust to be better at handling the standards and whether any of them will be able to get 100/100 anytime soon.

Tags : internet, css, browsers