The job market for web designers and developers could get more crowded as millions of former web designers who quit to become grocery baggers and deodorant testers who left the field out of sheer frustration, may return to the once promising field now that there is hope that the world’s most popular browser will actually adhere to the standards that it should have been supporting for it’s entire life.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/12/19/internet-explorer-8-and-acid2-a-milestone.aspx
thank god. glad I never wasted that time with all those retarded css hacks.
huzzah.
As kids (and morally questionable adults), who hasn’t wished for X-ray vision? Superman had it. Of course, he used it fight crime- truth, justice and the American Way - and I think I can speak for all of us when I say that my wish for X-ray vision was always for more …um..”personal” reasons. But I digress.
Well now web developers and designers can have the equivalent of those dirty little night-vision Sony handicams to point at websites with this little gem I ran across this week. Everyone I have shown it to so far has been amazed and it has taken a top spot in my web tool kit.
It’s called, quite simply, XRAY and it is a Bookmarklet that you add to your bookmarks and then whenever you want to “x-ray” a site, you just click on the bookmarklet and it will evaluate the page and provide an overlay will all sorts of CSS style information. One of my favorite features is the ability to navigate back up the page elements like a breadcrumb trail (in picture below see under “instance hierarchy”).
Here it is in action on this site - click for larger image:
Hope you enjoy
While reading a rather intriguing article on how ethanol is increasing the price of popcorn and ice cream, I noticed something interesting on the site (treehugger.com) . On the far right side of the page are a series of vertical tabs that allow the user to jump sections of the article by screen height. The tabs are about 598 pixels high far as I can tell, so I guess for them that is a relatively standard visible screen height.
Looks like just CSS div floats and anchor tags, but the first time I have seen this, so I thought it was interesting and I’d share.
