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CSS Property Reference
A CSS property reference has been added to HTML Dog.
'Bout Bloody Time!
It was over nine months ago that the HTML tag reference was added to the site. At the time, the CSS reference was intended to follow shortly after.
The thing is, putting together these references is about as much fun as reading an especially boring phone book and that's my excuse for taking so long - I just couldn't put myself through the maddening ordeal.
But HTML Dog, a "comprehensive" guide to web standard (X)HTML and CSS, was a little incomplete without the property reference, so I just gritted my teeth, got down and did it.
Level Two, Revision One
The properties belong to the CSS 2.1 standard (properties for aural style sheets are excluded). All of the valid values are listed and examples are thrown in for good measure. There are links to related properties and to the Guide pages, when relevant, for a more detailed explanation of usage. When other properties pop up in the description, they are also cross-linked - a feature that some suggested would improve the HTML reference.
As with the tag reference, the reasons behind writing it were to make a reference that is more digestible than the meaty, often confusing W3C documentation and to provide a more accurate reference than other sources, which tend to be either non-standard or non-very good.
As always, if you've got any suggestions for improvement, please contact me or leave a message here.
Wednesday 29 September, 2004 (12:03 PM GMT) | Comments (17) / Permanent Link
Sydney's The Place To Be
This time next week, the Web Essentials conference will be well underway in Sydney.
Having spoken to Russ Weakley, one of the organisers and the David Letterman of the web standards world, it sounds like the response has been great and it seems the event is going to be a sure-fire hit.
It isn't too late to sign up. If you're in or near the area and you haven't got a ticket yet, my advice is to do everything you can to get to it. "Hey boss, if you send me to this conference, I'll learn loads of stuff and our website will be a thousand times better..."
I even tried to convince myself that it was a sensible idea for me to fly around the other side of the world to go to it. In the end I failed. Damn.
I think I'm right in saying that it's the first web standards-specific conference. I'm sure it won't be the last.
Friday 24 September, 2004 (12:13 PM GMT) | Comments (4) / Permanent Link
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