Bite Size Standards - bitesTasty nuggets of web standards goodnessEasy cross-browser transparency- December 19, 2006 If you've ever found yourself in the position of needing to place a semi-transparent image or layer on a web page, you've probably ended up reading various arcane methods involving 24-bit PNG graphics and proprietary IE AlphaImageLoader expressions. Luckily, there is an easier way; albeit at the expense of valid CSS. Browser-specific properties Due to the way different browsers have implemented transparency, there are three different CSS properties that can affect the transparency of an...http://bitesizestandards.com/bites/easy-cross-browser-transparency Become a Bite Size Standards author- December 18, 2006 A quick announcement to point out that we are now accepting article submissions. Details can be found in the Contribute section.http://bitesizestandards.com/bites/become-a-bite-size-standards-author Bite Size Standards relaunches- December 15, 2006 The simple fact is this is a resource I want to read and, time allowing, contribute to. Work and family commitments meant, however, that the day-to-day running of BSS and the huge task of editing was not something I had time for, and so BSS seemed dead in the water after only a few short weeks. A lot of people have mailed or commented that they didn&8217;t want to see this idea die, so when Andrea Schwandt-Arbogast proposed a solution for getting things rolling again, I was more than happy to.http://bitesizestandards.com/bites/bite-size-standards-relaunches Equal height excerpts with ems- December 15, 2006 CSS gives us a couple of well-tested ways to set up layout columns. But what if, along with controlling the width of your columns, you'd also like to control the height of elements in your layout This is much harder to do, since the amount of text an element contains is often dynamic and unpredictable, as is the size of text in any specific user's browser. However, I have found that by specifying font sizes, line heights, and any vertical spacing with ems, I am able to create equal height...http://bitesizestandards.com/bites/equal-height-boxes-with-ems |