Monthly Archives: March 2009

HTML Tags and REL attributes You Really Should Know

via Net tuts+ 10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know is a timely reminder (especially since IE 8 is just out), of some basic HTML markup that you really should know.
in particular there are several tag you really need to know :

the <optgroup> tag,  for grouping of options inside a select box.
the <label> tag, [...]

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Google Search Page with Styles Disabled Reveals CSS Sprites

via the flickr page of schoschie comes the interesting discovery that Google is using a CSS sprite on it’s Google search pages :
I had left styles disabled by accident (from the Develop menu in Safari 4) and was surprised to see that Google apparently uses CSS sprites on its search page.
So, what are these “elf’s” [...]

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Greasing the bird : enhancing Twitter with GreaseMonkey

GreaseMonkey is an add-on to (primarily, but not only) the Mozilla FireFox web browser that lets you run small (javascript) scripts to modify HTML pages on-the-fly, changing how they behave and look.  It was originally created by Aaron Boodman (aka youngpup) in 2005.
Twitter is a social networking and micro blogging service that enables its users [...]

Posted in Code, GreaseMonkey, JavaScript, Social Networking, Web | 1 Comment
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