The Daily Report

3 December 2003 :::

2 pm est

Letter From Baghdad

On 24 November, The New Yorker Magazine published “Letter From Baghdad: The War After the War.” George Packer’s report paints a detailed human picture of life in post-Saddam Iraq. The article has now been posted online; it is a must-read. :::

CSS Smorgasbord II

• Previously mentioned in The Daily Report, Inknoise’s Layout-o-matic lets you generate ALA-style layouts even if you’re new to CSS. (For that matter, it can save you time and energy even if you’re an old CSS design pro.) New from Inknoise: the Amazing Rolloverer lets you automatically generate JavaScript-free, accessible, flicker-free CSS rollovers using the latest (Fahrner, Pixy, Cederholm, Langridge) image replacement and rollover techniques to emerge from the web design community. Both products are super. Both products are free. You don’t even need to register. See, this is why we love the web.
• Mezzoblue: CSS Crib Sheet
• Separate proper CSS from hacked CSS with Tantek’s Mid-pass filter. (As used in the recent SprintPCS CSS/XHTML redesign.)
• Andy Budd: “no margin for error” explains the concept of margin collapsing of vertically adjacent elements in CSS; sounds dull but Budd explains it clearly and you need to know this stuff
• webproducer.at: Flexible 3-column layout
• positioniseverything.net: 3-column complex layout demo; additional demos, articles and experiments available

For more CSS fun, see CSS Smorgasbord I in the Daily Report of 6 November 2003. :::

Short Stack

• In time for the holidays: Rustboy book!
• DelaRoy portfolio
• Brendan Dawes’s interactive 911 Memorial (Phase One) lets you leave messages for the victims of the September 11th 2001 attacks.
• Color Bar Navigation: meme discovered by Curt Cloninger, posted at K10k.net.
• XHTML and accessibility in ASP.net.
• Creating accessible forms is an excellent introductory mini-tutorial by Patrick Griffiths; part of a complete HTMLDog breakfast.
• The Web Standards Project interviews Dan Cederholm on the standards-compliant redesigns of Fast Company and Inc.com.
• Hicks Design redesigns. Nice.
• For God’s sake, let it die.
• Serving XHTML as application/xhtml+xml for XHTML aware browsers, text/html for others.
• “Google hates me!”
• Around the net in 80 days: the Ask Dr Laura letter kind of makes you think. (Author unknown.) :::.