Posts Tagged ‘css’

Blackboard Vista Triggers Quirks Mode

Apr 2, 2009 at 9:25 am, Stein

Ever been annoyed by Blackboard Vista’s (or Campus Edition 6+’s) rendering of your XHTML + CSS web pages? Yeah, me too–especially on Internet Explorer. This happens because Bb Vista triggers a browser’s quirks mode in spite of DOCTYPEs and validated markup (more…)

Re. “CSS Angles” and the Future of Em-Based Scaling

Dec 3, 2008 at 11:43 am, Stein

Sitepoint offered up an article by Tim Wright (CSSKarma), CSS Angles: Just the Edge Your Web Page Needs!, which shows that increasing the size of a single border property results in an angular object that can be placed behind things. After some experimentation I found a new solution and a new conundrum (more…)