Posts from: July 2006

18 Jul 2006

Why CSS layout is hard

The complaints are many and oft-repeated: “CSS has no grid system”, “the cascade is dumb”, “it’s broken”, etc. So why is CSS layout so hard? The obvious answer is that doing anything really well isn’t always easy. Most anyone can make a page in a modern WYSIWG editor (DW8/GoLiveCS2) in five minutes and have an

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4 Jul 2006

Opera folks: Make it easy to test in your browser

Opera wants to know what features web developers would most like to see. I posted this in response (but it never seemed to show up on the page): “Testing” version: offer devs a download pre-configured for more easily testing site compatibility with Opera. Marketshare will only rise if more sites are tested in Opera, so

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3 Jul 2006

widgets++

My first Opera widget is available. I designed it to take up as little desktop space as possible (a 22x22px icon) until you click it, which opens the interface and queries del.icio.us to show your latest bookmarks. By default, when you click a bookmark, the page opens in Opera and the widget “minimizes” back to

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