Not so long ago, in the dark times when browsers did not have nativeĀ developer tools, andĀ Internet Explorer 6 was dominating the web landscape inflicting pain and sufferings to all of the Front End developers in the world, the fundamental property of CSS that is theĀ box model, the formula that dictates how widths and heights sizes … Continue reading Internet Explorer 8 supports partially box-sizing in tables
Old saying: If you never tried to center vertically a text, you know nothing about CSS CSS tablesĀ are the main instrument thatĀ browsers, sinceĀ IE8 included and above,Ā make available to perform basic typographicalĀ operations such as centerĀ a text vertically inside of a container without knowing the height of the container norĀ the bulk of the text in terms of … Continue reading CSS table, WebKit, Blink and the missing pixel with width 100%
End of support has come for Windows XP, onĀ 8th of April 2014Ā Microsoft officially discontinued critical security updates for the platform thus declaring its death, and now that it is gone…it has becomeĀ vintage! It was the most loved (not much maybe) and hated (a lot) OS worldwide for 12 long years, so paying a memory tribute … Continue reading Windows XP Bookmarks ā
Many years were needed for developers to abandon tables as a mean to construct web pages layouts and switch to more semantically meaningful elements combined with CSS, but the bad side-effect of the awareness campaignĀ for building flexible layouts with style sheets was the complete demonizationĀ of HTML tables and the CSS properties that allow to access … Continue reading CSS table, basic structure for a typical mobile app layout
