Comments on: Podcast 001: Introduction to Web Standards http://www.refreshcleveland.org/2008/01/13/podcast-001-introduction-to-web-standards/ Refreshing the web, one city at a time Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:11:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: RefreshCleveland promotes design, technology, usability, and web standards in Cleveland, Ohio » Blog Archive » Browser sniffing - 2008 style... http://www.refreshcleveland.org/2008/01/13/podcast-001-introduction-to-web-standards/#comment-813 RefreshCleveland promotes design, technology, usability, and web standards in Cleveland, Ohio » Blog Archive » Browser sniffing - 2008 style... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:01:03 +0000 http://www.refreshcleveland.org/2008/01/13/podcast-001-introduction-to-web-standards/#comment-813 [...] some websites that were fine in IE6 all because of the DOCTYPE (mentioned in our podcast) and the practice of DOCTYPE [...] [...] some websites that were fine in IE6 all because of the DOCTYPE (mentioned in our podcast) and the practice of DOCTYPE [...]

]]> By: Brian Layman http://www.refreshcleveland.org/2008/01/13/podcast-001-introduction-to-web-standards/#comment-800 Brian Layman Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:37:18 +0000 http://www.refreshcleveland.org/2008/01/13/podcast-001-introduction-to-web-standards/#comment-800 I've enjoyed this conversation. Like you I work on the back end of things. For a LONG time CSS was an annoying quagmire for me. The syntax is annoyingly straight forward but I always struggled with why a # was used in one place and not another, when to drill down using periods and when not and how to look at a section of a web page and change that particular section. For someone who has a fairly strong technical background and wants to simply get the details of how this stuff works, I STRONGLY recommend CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland. I've looked at loads of CSS books and this has been the first to quickly answer my questions and more I never knew I had. Hopefully I'll see you at one of the webstandards meetings. I’ve enjoyed this conversation. Like you I work on the back end of things. For a LONG time CSS was an annoying quagmire for me. The syntax is annoyingly straight forward but I always struggled with why a # was used in one place and not another, when to drill down using periods and when not and how to look at a section of a web page and change that particular section.

For someone who has a fairly strong technical background and wants to simply get the details of how this stuff works, I STRONGLY recommend CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland. I’ve looked at loads of CSS books and this has been the first to quickly answer my questions and more I never knew I had.

Hopefully I’ll see you at one of the webstandards meetings.

]]> By: Brad Colbow http://www.refreshcleveland.org/2008/01/13/podcast-001-introduction-to-web-standards/#comment-744 Brad Colbow Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:44:04 +0000 http://www.refreshcleveland.org/2008/01/13/podcast-001-introduction-to-web-standards/#comment-744 Fantastic! That was a great overview guys, keep it up. I hope you keep recording. Fantastic! That was a great overview guys, keep it up. I hope you keep recording.

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