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Was browsing around some conference sites and found a theme that is definitely recurring on a lot of them. On the landing page you have all the usual, dates, prices, how to book etc. and the other common item on the landing page, is a speaker list, that highlights some of the big names that will be at the conference.

With the constraints we have on screen real estate and the large amount of information that needs to be presented, one …

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I just read an article from Louis Lazaris regarding the use of aside for pull quotes as apposed to blockquote. Having a read though the spec for both I definitely agree this is the better of the two elements to use for pull quotes. I am also very happy to see the spec for aside having been updated to more clearly define the use cases for this element as it was relatively unclear previously.

With that, I decided to look at …

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One of the ways to make a large amount of tabular data easier to read for the end user is to use alternating row colors. This technique is known as zebra tables and has been around for some time and serves it’s purpose very well.

To accomplish this, developers rely on JavaScript because of the dynamic nature of the tables. If your table was static, you could accomplish this using CSS because you could add a class on every odd row …

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So a short while ago the W3C unveiled the all new HTML5 logo. Long has there been talk about HTML5, what it means, what is placed under this umbrella and so forth. There has been some posts about what it is and what it is not but, in general, people have been relatively happy to see people use HTML5 as a new brand, if you will, to push the next wave of web development.

However, we in the standards community, of …

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Typography for web designers has not really been a hot topic simply because for the longest time we have been limited to a very basic subset of fonts. A bunch of alternative ‘hacks’ came about like text replacement, IFR which eventually became sIFR and more. These solutions for relied on some CSS trickery, dynamic generation via a back-end language such as PHP or Python or using Flash. While it gave designers more freedom it just never felt right.

Thanks to CSS3 …