Ma.gnolia: Dan Ott's Bookmarks

The Accessibility Checklist I V...

danieltott — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:10:17 PDT

Great general checklist for accessibility.

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Tags: accessibility, css, html, web development, front-end development

CSS Hack:Getting Safari to behave

danieltott — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:40:55 PDT

CSS Hacks targeting safari 3.

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Tags: css, css hack, safari

Ironic Sans: Idea: A new typography term

danieltott — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:35:30 PST

This is hilarious. keming. noun. The result of improper kerning.

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Tags: typography

Burden // ShaunInman.com

danieltott — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:16:33 PST

The glasshouse of designer Shaun Inman featuring insights on websites, css and design accompanied by original music.

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Tags: ie

Interaction Design Pattern Library - Welie.com

danieltott — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:21:12 PST

Interaction Design pattern library. More than 120 patterns for web designers. All patterns include examples, explanations and even links to literature and code

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Tags: web development, interactions, design

Resetting Again

danieltott — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:30:53 PST

Eric Meyer updates his famous css reset.

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Tags: eric meyer, css, reset, baseline styles, css inherit

Forms: Definition Lists or Tables? - the Geniant blog

danieltott — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:45:19 PST

A good debate between using tables or dls to mark up semantic forms.

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Tags: css, forms, dl, table

Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?

danieltott — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:34:16 PST

Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?

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Tags: web development

Better Web Designer and Web Developer Collaboration {Part One: Designer to CSS Coder}

danieltott — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:08:16 PST

Designers take note! How can designers make life easier for xhtml/css coders? Part one of this three part series on web designer/developer collaboration examines some practices for web designers to help keep projects on schedule and on budget.

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Tags: css, design, collaboration

Posh CSS

danieltott — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:41:41 PST

Posh CSS is a collection of Cascading Style Sheet Articles, Tutorials, Tips and Code snippets for the modern day web designer. They also featured a link from yours truly(;

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Tags: css

24 ways: Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6

danieltott — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:15:18 PST

24ways is back! This has become one of my favorite parts of the season, and they start things off with a great new way to address transparent PNGs in internet explorer.

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Tags: 24ways, css, javascript, internet explorer, ie, hack, png

XHTML Character Entity Reference

danieltott — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:11:39 PST

Great little reference for allowed character entities.

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Tags: xhtml

Improving the usability of within-page links

danieltott — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:08:27 PST

Great article on the CSS3 :target pseudo-class, plus some cool javascript, all to improve usability.

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Tags: css, css3, javascript

23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies

danieltott — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:46:28 PST

Interesting and useful info on eye-tracking tests

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Tags: Eye-tracking, accessibility

Stacks Overlays

danieltott — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:30:37 PST

This is brilliant; it's already improved the stacks in my dock.

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Tags: leopard stacks

iPhone SDK by February!

danieltott — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:40:12 PDT

Holy crap, this is big news!

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Tags: iPhone

Gems from the archive of the New York Times (kottke.org)

danieltott — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:41:54 PDT

Now that the paywall is down for the New York Times, kottke has put together a list of some interesting items from history. It's very cool. (via DaringFireball.net)

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Tags: NY Times

Proposed Catch-Phrases for the Next Bruce Willis Film - Jeffrey Zeldman

danieltott — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:11:37 PDT

The first one alone makes it worth it.

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Tags: zeldman

» Eric Meyer - Secrets of the CSS Jedi (Neatly Sliced)

danieltott — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:00:49 PDT

A great recap of Eric Meyer's presentation at AEA Chicago

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Tags: css, eric meyer

Cleveland Meet Microformats

danieltott — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:39:59 PDT

Video of Meyer presentation and more (that I missed) from the Cleveland meetup on the 11th

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Tags: css, eric meyer, cleveland meet up, video, microformats

David Seah : Freelancer/Collaboration Network

danieltott — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:44:30 PDT

A new way to look at freelance networking from David Seah. This could prove to be huge.

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Tags: freelance, web development

Fifty Most Influential Bloggers

danieltott — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:07:51 PDT

Interesting read. Zeldman (#27) and the guys from Smashing Magazine (#46) are the only ones on their list that I subscribe to.

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Tags: blogging

Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM // ShaunInman.com

danieltott — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:03:46 PDT

Interesting concept. I've always wished for ways to access this through css. I'll have to dig in and see. Initial impression: I don't like that users can't see the file they've selected.

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Tags: CSS, javascript, js

Eric's Archived Thoughts: Diagnostic Styling

danieltott — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:13:19 PDT

Could be really useful. I'll have to use it for a little bit to see for sure.

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Tags: css, web development

CSS Off - Next Contest is September 15, 2007

danieltott — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:46:54 PDT

The CSS Off guys announced today that the next contest will begin on September 15. Wooo!

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Tags: CSS, css off