Tag: html
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How the semantic web should come back, and is.
The web has come a big way. Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s invention that changd the world has undergone a large metamorphosis in the way how it provides millions – and now billions – of human beings information, communication and entertainment. Early websites had a fair amount of content, but it was surrounded by flashing marquee’s, background…
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CSS Background not showing in IE
I searched for a while, and could not find out why places.ae wasn’t showing it’s background in IE, but it was showing it in Firefox (didn’t check other browsers). Apparently, I had a “mistake” in my CSS files, and IE seem to trap more on this than firefox. I had the following line: #city{ background:url(http://img.places.ae/p2bg.jpg)repeat-x…
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Make HTML pages quickly, Drawter
Drawter is one of those tools that are just too good to be true. It allows you to “draw” a page, and then export it’s CSS and HTML code. It uses JQuery heavily, and I’m loving it. It does one simple thing, making HTML pages, but does it very well.
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CSS Optimizer shrinks your CSS files
CSS Optimizer is a tool that will shrink your CSS files and shave off a few kilobytes. I tested a few CSS files on places.ae and, shamefully, saw an average of 33% improvement that’s possible. (Though not as bad as some other sites: salik (49%) and dubai police (62%)). Very useful tool, especially on mobile…