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My name is Dirk Wendling. I am a web designer / developer at Sun Microsystems. I am currently studying Computer Science and Media at the Stuttgart Media University.
Feel free to add my vCard to your addressbook, visit me on facebook, or on XING.

I am one of the 3 developer of messi (an university jabber project) written in Java.

Please be aware that I am also using this Blog as my playground for new techniques which is why it may sometimes look a bit funny.

Dirk Wendling

Posts Tagged ‘CSS’

project, demo

sprites are no new kids around the block. but they are still worth to mention because they are very efficient in decreasing the HTTP GETs.
e.g. instead of loading two images for two states of one button, just use one image and swap it with the sprites technique.

#crossfaderHandler { background: transparent url(../img/regler.png) 0 0 no-repeat; }
#crossfaderHandler:hover { background: transparent url(../img/regler.png) -70px 0 no-repeat; }

i decided to use the unit png fix for my transparent pngs (to make them work for < IE 7 users).

via css-tricks.com

css-tricks: removing the dotted outline
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instead of just setting the style values to zero (which than causes the work of adding single style values again) like the common reset css solutions (e.g. eric meyer or yahoo! developer) tripoli is doing more: afterwards it sets all the browsers to the same to display all elements the same.

via
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I just read Paul Annett’s How to recreate Silverback’s parallax on vitamin.

The effect he describes is quite nice: see this page and resize your browser window. How does it work? 3 different layers with background images, these layers have different positions in % (->  related to window size) so resizing the browser window makes moving the pictures (each one in a different way).

My opinion: It looks good, but is kind of useless … maybe someone has a better idea of how to bring this effect to the users.
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always remember:

Use IDs when there is only one occurrence per page. Use classes when there are one or more occurrences per page.

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Auch wenn es nicht wirklich nützlich ist – beeindruckend ist es schon!

Im Lifehacker Blog habe ich gerade folgenden Online Generator entdeckt:

Text + Image + CSS3 = Crazy Delicious

Was der macht? markiert einfach den folgenden Text und ihr werdet es sehen.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer

adipiscing elit. Nullam venenatis. Nam

sodales, pede nec placerat ultrices, neq

ue nisl interdum neque, condimentum cond

imentum lacus libero non neque. Suspendi

sse feugiat venenatis tortor. Curabitur

sem. Nulla iaculis pharetra sem. Praesen

t eu pede a nunc hendrerit porttitor.Lor

em ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer ad

ipiscing elit. Nullam venenatis. Nam sod

ales, pede nec placerat ultrices, neque

nisl interdum neque, condimentum condime

ntum lacus libero non neque. Suspendisse

feugiat venenatis tortor. Curabitur sem

. Nulla iaculis pharetra sem. Praesent e

ich habe bewusst den text klein ehalten und die qualität ist dadurch nicht besser geworden, aber wer einmal selbst einen text und den linkzu einem bild in den generator eingibt, der wird sehen, dass das ergebnis schon dem bild ähnelt. Geht natürlich nicht im InternetExplorer, pseudo elemente werden nicht unterstützt.
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I just wrote Dennis Blöte’s website performance tuing where he linked to David Shea’s (yes, the “CSS Zen Garden guy”) A List Apartarticle article about sprites.
Reason enough to write a short blog entry about this smart way of using nice css hover effects.
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There are some issues which you should consider by creating a printversion of your homepage.
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There is a possibility for automatic numerations in Hypertext documents. Even if it’s not really valid sometimes it is very usefull and neccesary: with the pseudo elements :before and :after you can for example realise numbered Headlines.

I took the code from selfhtml.org (by stefan muenz) and changed it for my case:
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Einfuehrungen:

Tutorials:

Erfahrungsberichte:

Podcasts:

Tools:

Frameworks:

Praesentationen:

Buecher:

*to be continued*

ich habe ja auf www.dirk-wendling.de seit geraumer zeit eine “online visitenkarte” (microformats unter der haube). nun habe ich auf “24 ways to impress your friends” (ist so ein adventskalender für webmenschen, wie der von den webkrauts) folgenden artikel bemerkt: styling hcards with css. hört sich gut an und sieht sehr gut aus!

acid test

12 Dec 2006, No Comments »

der nächste firefox wird wohl den acid test des web standards projekt bestehen.

der acid test ist quasi ein browser härtetest. er soll browserentwicklern helfen, ihren browser standardkonformer zu gestalten. ziel ist es, dass der smily wie in folgendem bild auch durch css erzeugt bzw richtig dargestellt werden kann.

Browser CSS Acid Test