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W3C fixes CSS validator
Within days of reading CSS Validator Changes the Rules is Broken in The Daily Report of 5 February, Sijtsche Smeman, one of the volunteers who helps maintain the W3C CSS validator, fixed the bug. Now that’s service. If you are so inclined, you might thank the W3C for doing the right thing quickly, and with grace.
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Highlights from recent Daily Reports
- A List Apart No. 170
- Bobby van der Sluis: Exploring Footers (controlling vertical positioning in CSS layouts). Jeremy Keith: JavaScript Image Gallery (a quick, easy way to make a one-page gallery that uses JavaScript to load images and their captions on the fly).
- CSS Validator
Changes the Rules is Broken
- The W3C’s CSS validation service has accidentally changed the way it interprets CSS authoring practices. Many sites that were designed valid no longer validate when run through the service via standard linking methods. These sites are still valid per the CSS2 spec. The trouble is not with the authoring method used, but with the validator, which suffers from a long-standing bug. It needs to be fixed as soon as possible. Until it is fixed, workarounds are available — although you might find some of them more trouble than they are worth. An in-depth Report for designers and developers. [Note: Within days of reading this post, a few of the volunteers who maintain the W3C’s CSS validation service went in and fixed the bug.]
- A List Apart No. 169
- Brian Alvey: Everything I Need to Know About Web Design I Learned Watching Oz. Stuart Robertson: CSS Design — Custom Underlines.
- Don’t Design on Spec!
- No matter how juicy the potential project, it is never a good idea to produce designs on spec.
- Design: Chip Kidd
- A mid-career retrospective on the excellent and influential graphic designer.
- Creativity: Alfred Hitchcock
- Best Hitch bio ever.
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