Archive for the 'reference' Category

A porting of Robert Bringhurst's indispensable reference and guide to typography for use with CSS and (X)HTML. Sporadically updated, but worth reading.

HTML, like every other markup language and programming language that I know of, uses common keyboard characters as part of its spec. Those characters need to be "escaped." Also there's a wider range of characters available than are just on your keyboard.

A longstanding website devoted to tracking the various quirks and workarounds of the different browsers w/r/t their implementations of CSS rendering. Always a good place to start if your layout looks screwed. Origin of the Hollyhack.

Comprehensive and easily navigable interface for the CSS2 spec. As such, it's somewhat outdated (CSS3 is beginning to be adopted by modern browsers), but contains the bulk of the CSS properties that you will end up using.

"Due to the length of this list, it has been divided into the following sections..."

I've been reading Baudolino over the weekend and it reminded me that whenever one reads Eco set in the medieval period, it's probably wise to have a list of heresies to refer back to every once in a while.