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• DOM Layout Effects

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  Ethan Poole

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  Sat 19 Mar 2005 at 7:09

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  CSS3 is said to offer a variety of new functionality in making spectacular designs, but until then people all around are developing ways to bridge the gaps. I first ran across this layout effect in Alex's design blog, I figured that I would share this interesting use of DOM. Alessandro Fulciniti has developed a way of making rounded corners without the use of images, but rather a DOM effect. He uses cascading block elements to create the smooth corners. When the script doesn't run, you just don't have the borders (quite simple!). Aless…

• Acid2 Test Suite

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  Ethan Poole

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  Wed 16 Mar 2005 at 19:41

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  We've all heard it already, but Microsoft is preparing the next version of their web browser Internet Explorer 7. In the past, Microsoft has always promised interoperable with other browsers, but has failed every promise. Even with Microsoft's bad reputation among web developers, Microsoft has seemed to involve web developers more in this project that before. They've already asked in the Internet Explorer web blog which standards web developers think need to be included in IE7. Developers have poured their hearts out with all the standard…

• Absolute Clearance

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  Ethan Poole

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  Sat 12 Mar 2005 at 10:52

  A problem that many people face is trying to make a footer when using absolute positioning in the design. The simplest fix is to use floats as you're able to clear the footer, but this isn't available in absolute positioning. One advantage of using absolute positioning though is that you can place your page elements in any order on the page, usually with the content first. The ideal median is being able to place your content first and have a way to clear for a footer. There are two hacks or workarounds to this - absolute clearance and neg…

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