Archive for June, 2007

Mike Cherim of Beast-blog.com has written a nice little article on Avoiding Extreme Accessibility.

"Over-thinking, over-engineering, or going to extremes is rarely a good thing when acted upon. Moderation is the key.

We've all fallen foul of over accessifying a website but with all good intensions, after all Accessibility is a good thing. Let's turn these good intensions into good use by thinking of our users as real human beings rather than aliens from outer space.

I'm finally taking the plunge into CakePHP. The Rails-like Rapid Development architecture has allured me for some time. However, on starting I immediately came across trivial questions such as how do I create static pages? how do I create an Admin area? how do I send HTML emails? etc etc... I stumbled upon the 21 things I learned about CakePHP article which quickly answered all my newbie questions. A real time saver!

When floating an element it is taken out of the document flow. As a result, anything containing the floated element does not take on its width or height. Like most developers, to overcome this problem I applied an extra clearing DIV below the floated element. But this isn't ideal as it just added more unmeaningful elements to the HTML document.Luckily there's a nice alternative. Just apply an overflow:hidden CSS rule to the floated elements parent container, problem solved! This has the same effect as the above but without the added markup. Miles better I must say.

I found this little gem in Andy Clarke's book: Transcending CSS.