Web Design Linkage

Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

I’m having an extremely grouchy day. The cats were PvP-enabled from about five this morning, I have a persistent headache, the Irish news is going to be full of the mechanics of voting for the next few days, and a million small details are annoying me.

However, I’ve found a few interesting bits of web development stuff knocking around that I’m finding interesting, so it’s not all bad.

Roger Johansson has developed a way to make shrink-to-fit graphic buttons in CSS, which look like they actually work properly. His code ends up using four nested spans, which is far from semantically ideal, but I’ll be keeping it in mind for getting out of tight design corners.

And Eric Meyer has developed an ultimate CSS reset,  which I suspect I’ll be putting to use sooner rather than later.

A Different Future

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I dunno, nothing for weeks and then two posts in a single day. Here’s a set of German postcards from the early 20th Century, depicting Life in the Year 2000. It’s bizarre to see how much it’s like the 70s and 80s ideas I grew up with - it’s essentially the technology and dress codes of the time, with ideals like “people will be able to fly”, “the weather will not affect us as much”, and “different technologies will be combined”.

Planescape Alignment Quiz

( No surprises here, then... )