Welcome to ‘five minute argument’, a collection of articles, editorials, and tutorials about css, html, and the World Wide Web.
DOM programming techniques
Wednesday, 4th April 2012
Different ways of looking at a problem can produce quite different solutions.
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Content Management Systems
3rd April:
Continuing the a-z series with the bane of my working life: Content Management Systems.Bookmarks: forgotten, but not gone. Yet.
2nd April:
Back in the day, we fastidiously kept track of list of interesting URLs, and grouped them in a menu list in our browsers. Whatever happened to that?‘A’ is for ‘Accessibility’
1st April:
And so we begin with the first of twenty-six posts dedicated to all things web-related. First up: accessibility.Ide(a)s of March
31st March:
Announcing serious intentions to damn well start blogging again.Determining when an image has loaded
19th August:
How to solve a common problem with dynamic image loadingFacebook meta tag
15th July:
Just testing …The arrogant curveball
5th July:
In which two popular browsers confound all expectations.jquery.overlay
2nd June
Margin after float
29th May:
Margins often behave in frustrating ways when combined with floated elements. Here’s a quick solution to one such problem.Parsing tweets with PHP
14th March:
A port of Remy Sharp’s excellent ‘ify’ code.Default user-agent font sizes
19th February:
Even the most basic styling can reveal differences in user agent stylesHow to build a scrolling list with jQuery
7th February:
This tutorial explains, step-by-step, how to use CSS and jQuery animations to build a simple ‘auto-scrolling’ vertical list.Adding semantics to jquery-ui’s progress bar
18th January:
Or ‘Adding functionality to the CSS progress bar’Much more emphasis
17th January:
More fun playing with semantics.More about link ‘footprints’
A bit about link ‘footprints’, ‘block-level’ links, and HTML 5.Right-aligned menu
How to style a right-aligned menu, the easy way.Visualising links
By their nature, links — and, especially, images within them — can display quite unexpectedly.BBC self-deprecation?
22nd October:
Something not about web-design for a change.Maths is not the bedrock
27th September:
‘Maths games’ may have an useful function to fulfil, but don’t overestimate their importance.URL sitemap predictor
1st September:
A simple demo of a ‘URL predictor’ that makes use of sitemap data.dl: what is it good for? 1st August:
After almost a year of fairly sporadic blogging, an argument has finally arisen.Fixed position and z-index
Yes, those fixed-positioned elements are annoying; please bear with me.Specificity vs. proximity
8th July:
Specificity rules are simple and robust. Despite this, they sometimes ‘break’ in weird and wonderful ways.
