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So, prompted by such

March 9, 2001 by Michael Boyle

pleasant folks as Zeldman, eric costello, and Owen Briggs, I’ve been experimenting extensively with CSS-only layouts. I started working on a new project, but decided that since it wasn’t “fixed” it was too easy just to change what I wanted to do if I couldn’t get something to go just how I wanted.

So I started converting this yellow monstrosity instead. With a model to work to, it brought a lot more discipline. In any case, I got the whole thing converted in no time flat (thanks to the people that are following this stuff closely and writing about it) – except for one thing – I can’t seem to pin the right hand yellow panel to the side of the browser window. As well, the three columns just end when they end – I can’t extend the left and right to the bottom of the browser window. I’ve tried every combination of margin: 0px and whatnot I can think of.

When I do get it together I think I’m going to move to the new style of code for this site. It’s much simpler, much smaller, more fluid and easier to work with. Even if NS 4 people can’t participate on an equal footing – I’m 90% sure it’s worth it.

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Tags: Browser, CSS, Layout, Zeldman

Noted by boingboing

March 9, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Noted by boingboing: some important new research is taking place at Harvard in the I Can Eat Glass Project. The goal of the project: to list how to say, “I can eat glass, it does not hurt me” in as many different languages as possible. Warning: site features a truly horrifying bgimage.

Tags: Language, Research, Search, War

Wired News has published

March 8, 2001 by Michael Boyle

a good postmortem of EToys, which has shut down as of today: EToys Epitaph: ‘End of an Error’.

Tags: Error, Wired

Earlier tonight I finished

March 8, 2001 by Michael Boyle

the initial run at a new layout I’m doing for another project (you can see it soon, don’t worry). It’s pretty simple, really, but it does rely on positioning a minimum number of things exactly in the right spot. If they’re not there the whole idea breaks down. Anyhow – even though I did it in plain old tables, same as always, it still took a while to get it right – and it’s still not perfect in NS 4.7x. So it occurs to me that I could do the site entirely in CSS, perhaps – make the best of a learning opportunity. Lo and behold, Eric Costello has been following the work people are doing in this regard very closely! So I’m going to give it a try. The problem I foresee is that all of the layouts/designs I’ve seen are very airy and light. That’s great – but for this project it’s not exactly the vibe I’m after. So it’ll be a bit of a different kind of challenge, I think. Chunkier.

Tags: CSS, Design, Layout

Ohmygod! My friend

March 8, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Ed (who, appropriately enough, works as an ed) seems to think there’s a ball in the sky. Sheesh – what’s next?

Tags: Friend

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