Archive for September, 2009

For those who have not seen my Edge of the Web CSS3 demon­stra­tion I used the CSS Zen Garden HTML. Why, because I wanted to use some­body else’s HTML, mainly because I wanted to show it works with any HTML and that most people would be famil­iar with the site.

I will not sub­mit it, because Dave has not accep­ted any new sub­mis­sions almost two year, my demo is far from the visual stand­ard of most other design and I broke one major rule the CSS does not validate.

Well I am speak­ing at the Edge of the Web Con­fer­ence in Perth in Novem­ber. The title Pro­gress­ive Enhance­ment with CSS: Or how I stopped wor­ry­ing about IE6 and start­ing lov­ing CSS3.

The aim is to show how you can use CSS2 and CSS3 to improve the exper­i­ence of vis­it­ors using mod­ern browsers, while not block­ing access to those people still using older browsers like IE6 …

If you are like me, on occa­sions you have people want to paste dir­ectly from Word into CMS or Word­press. I was bemoan­ing the fact, that you either end up with Word HTML or lose all the format­ting, when a col­league of mine, Steven Miles sug­gest I use JavaS­cript to clean up the HTML and provide the some code.

So this is what I cre­ated to clean up Word HTML, you paste the HTML is to the edit­able div, hit the but­ton and if you are using Inter­net Explorer the con­ver­ted HTML is copied to your clip­board. So you can paste the clean HTML (note it is HTML code) straight into the CMS editor in HTML mode …

*** does not cur­rently work in IE8, I need to invest­ig­ate further ***