Comments for Web Design Pond

Comment on Conditional Comments by Dizi

Dizi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:52:07 +0000

I think it really depends on the site itself, for example recently I did a site where there was a png that faded from black to transparent, it added nothing but a nice design touch to the website, so rather than use a png hack so that it worked on IE6 I used a conditional comment and just removed it on anything before IE7.

I do agree though that it shouldn’t be relied upon as a quick fix, it should be used to help a site downgrade gracefully if there is no other way to do it and if it is better to use a conditional comment rather than using a hack.

Comment on Conditional Comments by Gavin

Gavin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:02:33 +0000

Im not a fan of conditional comments, in fact at work we now have a policy of not using them at all.

Websites can be built quite easily without having to add browser specific code and as developers one of our aims should be to avoid things like this and only use them as a last resort, preferably not at all.

Comment on Smooth Image Resizing by Mo Kargas

Mo Kargas — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:19:41 +0000

Great snippet, but a shame it doesn’t work for IE6

Comment on Conditional Comments by target web design

target web design — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:26:35 +0000

great article for browser compatiility, something all programmers should be aware.

Comment on Conditional Comments by WebCreationUK

WebCreationUK — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:34:55 +0000

Simple at straight to the object, nice post.

Comment on Pure CSS Experiments by Jen

Jen — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:15:38 +0000

wow the ASCII art is the best, it takes ASCII to a new level. Nice collection Dizi

Comment on Dynamic Copyright Date by Scott

Scott — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:56:28 +0000

Just noticed you’d included it in the main post pixie. Nicely done

(In fairness, I only noticed cos I’ve had about 3 dozen hits from this page in the past couple of weeks lol)

Keep up the good work pixie

Comment on Stopping Browser Shift by hubbers

hubbers — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:17:10 +0000

html {overflow-y: scroll}

also works

Comment on HTML & CSS comments by Dizi

Dizi — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:19:26 +0000

Nice tip Luke I haven’t thought of commenting like that, it makes it a lot simpler just commenting on the close of the elements and makes a lot of sense to do it that way too.

(Plus you’re right, about giving meaningful names, something I am sometimes guilty of not doing, I have a bad habit of calling things left and right…which is confusing when left becomes right and right becomes left )

Comment on HTML & CSS comments by Luke Jones

Luke Jones — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:02:02 +0000

Great post, one standard I try and get into the brains of the devs at work is commenting with the name of the element, because one should always semantically name elements anyway. For example:


Some content

Comment on Sticky Footer Tutorial by vorbestellen schweiz

vorbestellen schweiz — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:00:08 +0000

I am working on a new design, which had what I now know is a sticky footer. With your great article I could solve the problem. So my new Wordpress design can go online in a few days.

Comment on 25 Illustrative Websites by Pete

Pete — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:09:17 +0000

wow i wish that i could design a site that looks like these but i can’t draw. such talented designers and websites

Comment on CSS Highlight Current Link by DPdesign

DPdesign — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:23:43 +0000

Neat trick, thanks for sharing

Comment on 25 Illustrative Websites by DPdesign

DPdesign — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:29:32 +0000

Great Collection!!

Comment on Forgotten Tags by James

James — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:59:43 +0000

Super article, keep up the hard work Helen