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XHTML2 is the next version of the XHTML family, and is going to last call Real Soon Now. This presentation gives an overview of what XHTML2 is trying to achieve.
XHTML2 is the next iteration in the HTML family.
XHTML1 addressed the problems of turning HTML into an XML application.
XHTML2 addresses the remaining identified problems in HTML4/XHTML1
XHTML2: […]

Create mini tabs using standard and compatible CSS and HTML
With the helpful concepts explained on Eric Meyer’s article, a while ago I turned to inline one of the nicest horizontal menus in its simplicity: the famous Mini Tabs by Dan Cederholm. I thought I’d share here the results.
Inline Mini Tabs

CSS styling of unordered lists to create tabbed menu navigation with high quality and refined graphics.
Sliding Doors of CSS: A List Apart

Most tutorials on the styling of CSS lists for menus use unordered lists, which, for people starting out with CSS, can be a little difficult to grasp as the use of unordered lists requires extra styling to remove the bullets.
In this tutorial I demonstrate how to style a Definition List, which is equally suitable for […]

When marking up content which could be defined in some way as a list, you should consider using an unordered list (
) for presentation. Not only does it improve the readability of your HTML code, it also applies meaning to content which would otherwise have none.

Unordered lists: more than just bullets

In my Modular CSS article I documented the possibility of breaking down stylesheets into components that could be reused across projects. All well and good. The next logical step is to extend this to become a CSS framework, allowing rapid development of sites with pre-written and tested components. All that’s really required to produce this […]

What is the box office?
“The Box Office” is another handy tool which makes us web developers even more lazy.
It automates the time-consuming job where one would have to manually create transparent div’s so that a certain piece of text would go around the contour of an object inside an image. (Just read on, it’ll get […]

Vitaly Friedman kindly suggested to StraTechnologist his enormous resource for Web developers and I happily report his work here for you:
“Web-Dev-Bookmarks” is a list of essential web-sites, tutorials, references and examples (related to CSS Navigation Menus, CSS- & HTML-Techniques, Layouts, Accessibility, Usability, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) etc.) which make the life of web developers […]

In large tables it’s often hard to focus on one row, making it hard to extract data from the table. There are various scripts (client–side as well as server–side) floating around the net that provide the ability to style odd/even table–rows to aid readability of tabular data.
Almost a year after my comment at A List […]

I think that probably the debate on Fixed against liquid will never find a definitive word. But now perhaps there’s another option: the Progressive Layout. In this article, that is a small extract from the Italian version, we’ll see how to easily turn with Javascript a CSS-based layout (fixed or fluid doesn’t matter) into a […]