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Specific vs Generic CSS

February 9th, 2008

I’ve been doing quite a bit of CSS fixing/updating for a handful of large complex websites lately and it has really started to challenge and shape my ideas about CSS. Below, I share my ever evolving philosophy (in its current state) on CSS. Specifically, I’m talking about specificity. (Think of me as an outsider looking into your CSS to fix or add something.)

Two Most Common Methods
There are definitely more ways to skin a website than there are ways to skin a cat. But as far as specificity goes, it seems to me that there are are two basic CSS religions. For the purpose of this post, I am going to call them Method 1 and Method 2 because I am boring like that.
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CSS discovery - IE bold font fade issue

January 17th, 2008

I discovered today that there is an easy way to fix the issue with Internet Explorer (IE) bold fonts being distorted (blocky and choppy looking) when inside a block element that is being faded in or out (dynamic filter changes) with something like jQuery.fadeIn(). A lot of people have been using the background color fix. I started to do this too until I ran across a situation where there was a gradient background under the font. This meant that I couldn’t make a solid background color or it would create a weird band of color over the dither. After some experimentation, I found the easy way to fix it is to use font-weight:600 instead of font-weight:bold. Hard to believe it was that simple, but it worked.

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Back Online

January 17th, 2008

Sorry. I had a lot of projects come up and was unable to deal with moving and setting this blog back up. It is interesting, looking back at the xajax_upload utility, just how many things about it I would do differently now. But that is the way of things I guess…always learning and trying to make things better. For now, feel free to try it out, but be warned, it isn’t really easy to implement, and it really ought to be a class or plugin for xajax. - jeremy

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Updated xajax_upload for Xajax 0.5

April 4th, 2007

I found an issue with my xajax 1.0.1.0.5 release. As some had noticed, there was no setting for $tmpDirInCGI in the upload_config_inc.php. This was because I mistakenly included an older version of the config. I have re-released the code under 1.0.2.0.5.

Sorry!

Jeremy

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