Pre-Wordpress era CSS techniques papers were lying around in my office. Turned out they were printouts of old (?!) webpages dating back to when I had more easily access to a printer than to Internet. I shredded them yesterday, but here’s the list:

• Fast Rollovers Without Preload
• /* Position Is Everything */ (Modern browser bugs explained in detail) : IE5.5/win phantom box bug
• Tantek : Pandora’s Box (Model) of CSS Hacks And Other Good Intentions
• TagSoup : Fixed Positioning for Windows Internet Explorer
• CSS-discuss Wiki : Box Model Hack
• CSS Hub : Alternate Box Model Hacks
• Douglas Bowman’s Stopdesign : Background-Image to Replace Text (now considered obsolete F.I.R. technique)
• Eric Meyer : Minimal Markup, Surprising Style, Style With Substance

The funniest part was that today, all those pages are still on-line.

Introducing the *IE5/Mac-only-CSS-hack* invented by nonetheless than M. Çelik himself, « explained »:http://www.stopdesign.com/examples/ie5mac-bpf/ by « Doug Bowman »:http://www.stopdesign.com/, who wrote the « story of the hack »:http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2004/07/06/filtering-css.html.

[Stop grumbling, I know: official name is _IE5/Mac Band Pass Filter_]

« CSS-discuss »:http://www.css-discuss.org/ is a very good standards web design mailing list. Its « wiki »:http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ is a repository for many links, including the « hack page »:http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssHack I keep looking for.

« Our site doesn’t validate » is a turn-off. « Let’s follow industry best practice » is far more appealing. (« Simon Willinson »:http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/06/09/backporting, « sick of Web Standards »:http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/archives/sick_of_web_standards.php)

* « Phil Ringnalda »:http://philringnalda.com/blog/2004/06/like_a_weblog_but_completely_different.php on « BugMeNot »:http://bugmenot.com/ « a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times) » (« via »:http://simon.incutio.com/blogmarks/2004/06/04/)
* « Lorem Ipsum Generator »:http://www.lorem-ipsum.info/generator3 (« via »:http://simon.incutio.com/blogmarks/2004/06/02/)
* « Edit This Page PHP »:http://editthispagephp.sourceforge.net/home/index.php (« via »:http://simon.incutio.com/blogmarks/2004/06/03/)

« Aggreg8 »:http://www.aggreg8.net/ or « RSS Reader Panel »:http://fls.moo.jp/moz/rssreader.html? Read:
* « what Phil Ringnalda says »:http://philringnalda.com/blog/2003/06/lightweight_mozilla_rss_reader.php
* « A Frenchman’s opinion »:http://www.framasoft.net/article2295.html * « Google »:http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=RSS+Reader+Panel+Aggreg8&btnG=Search

* Read in the comments of « Power To The People: Relative Font Sizes »:http://www.alistapart.com/articles/relafont/ an article @ « ALA#176 »:http://www.alistapart.com/issues/176/ the following (by « Anne Van Kesteren »:http://annevankesteren.nl/): « IE goes into quirk mode if _anything_ is before the DOCTYPE It is some kind of myth that IE only goes into quirks mode when a XML Prolog or PI is used before the DOCTYPE. Using a comment can already do that. »
[« x »:http://www.alistapart.com/discuss/relafont/, scroll down for datestamp 9 April 2004 @ 11:10am]
* The « W3C »:http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-grddl-20040413/ released « GRDLL »:http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-grddl-20040413/, a rewrite of « An RDF-in-XHTML Proposal »:http://www.w3.org/2003/11/rdf-in-xhtml-proposal, by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux & alii. GRDLL stands for « Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages ». As « Anne rightly points out »:http://annevankesteren.nl/archives/2004/04/w3c-has-naming-issues : « W3C has naming issues ». Aside from that, let it be known that they are on the right path (in the light of _0.91-2.0-Atom_ issues).
* Ian Hickson, posted « embedding flash without « :http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1081798064&count=1 (« Anne, again »:http://annevankesteren.nl/archives/2004/04/using-object-in-the-real-world)

* Apple developpement « Best practices in Web page developpement »:http://developer.apple.com/internet/bestwebdev.html
* « Pi[cz]y »:http://www.pixy.cz/index-en.html’s « color scheme finder »:http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html

(both « via »:http://simon.incutio.com/blogmarks/2003/12/17/)