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An interesting short article on the pitfalls of using CSS to hide page elements: Hiding with CSS: Problems and solutions | 456 Berea Street.

Personally, for elements where accessibility matters, like navigation menus, etc. I prefer hiding those elements with a short javascript statement I put right after the element I want to hide. This way the user does not notice the element getting closed and best of all, it remains accessible to all.

Welcome to the second part of the Back to The Basics series of articles here on Scarf*oo. Back to The Basics focuses – in simple terms – on the basic stuff every web developer should be familiar with. In the first Back to The Basics article we covered the shorthand CSS notation. Today, we’ll be looking at the obscure box model and what does it mean to us and how can we manipulate it.

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Welcome to the first part of the Back to The Basics series of articles here on Scarf*oo. In this series, I’ll focus – in simple terms – on the basic stuff every web developer should be familiar with. Today, we’ll be looking at the shorthand CSS notation, a quick way to write long CSS statements in one short line.

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Take a break from work, sit down comfortably and watch this nine minute clip with Jeffrey Zeldman discussing web standards, how it all began and why should we care about them. Now I know how young our job is and how even big minds like Zeldman find themselves constantly taking tradeoffs when developing web sites.

A great tool to clean up text on any web page. Just configure a layout that best suites your reading preference and create a bookmark to the tool. A single click will hopefully transform any messy web page into pure reading bliss. Readability – An Arc90 Lab Experiment.

Hear ye, hear ye! i invite you to take a look at NVDA – a free, open source screen reader. There is a short review of the software over at 456 Berea Street if you’re interested.

Just wanted to let you know that the 280th issue of your favorite e-magazine can be found of the web-shelves right now. As usual there are two fresh articles, one is all zen-y in it’s pursue of imperfection, while the other focuses on coaching your e-communities. Perhaps both are worth a read.

While I loved playing Lemmings, I never loved playing with IE. After spending a full week in bed, this is the first news I ended up stumbling into – IE8 Has Arrived. My head is still swimming around from the fever, so you’ll excuse me for not delving into the depths of this release.

If you’ve been looking for a nicer and free alternative to your old boring monospaced font, take a look at Inconsolata. While the author says he’s not done refining it yet, I’ve already been using it with pleasure for a while now, replacing the Bitstream Vera Sans.

If you are clueless about HTML 5, take a look at Christopher Schmitt’s Looking into HTML5 slides. No audio on the slides, but interesting to watch and read anyway.