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MyYahoo Brings RSS Home

MyYahoo now accommodates for RSS Syndication within its customisable UI. Upto 50 feeds can be subscribed to and served up amidst the rest of the media amalgam. With Yahoo's extensive market share, perhaps this will spread RSS to the web masses and finally make it a household name? Oh, and at last I have found somewhere that collates the football results, weather, TV listings and latest Jobs in a usable format. Thumbs up for Yahoo!

Posted on Oct 03, 2004 at 01:46:58. [Comments for MyYahoo Brings RSS Home- 0]

CSS Snippets Volume 1

Relates to Web Standards and CSS Design

Just noting a couple of useful CSS2 selectors (Standards UAs) and another IE hack to fix rendering:

Binding CSS behaviour of an explicit label and the related form field:


input:hover,label:hover+input,label:hover+br+input {…}

Displaying update information for inserted content marked up by the <ins> element:


ins[datetime]:before {
  content:'Update: ';
  font-weight:bold;    
}
ins[datetime]:after {
 content: ' [' attr(datetime) ']';
 font-style:italic;
}
ins[datetime] {
  text-decoration:none;
}

Synchronizing Mozilla with IE's rendering of the align attribute for <col> elements:

IE will position cell content based on the align attributes:


<col align="left">
<col align="right" span="4">

For Mozilla a quick selector is required: (Code corrections made - see comments)


td {text-align:right;}
tr:first-child {text-align:left;}

or, slightly more economical:


td {text-align:left;}
td+td {text-align:right;}

Quick fix to IE6 overhang with fieldset backgrounds (relative sizes are arbitary but make the point):


* html fieldset {
  /* \ Not Mac */
  position:relative;clear:both;
  margin-top:1.5em;padding:1em 0;
  /* */
}
* html fieldset legend {
  /* \ Not Mac */
  position:absolute;
  top:-0.8em;left:0.4em;
  /* */
}

All are common-sense really, but someone may find them useful or enlightening!?

Posted on Oct 01, 2004 at 01:12:25. [Comments for CSS Snippets Volume 1- 2]