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What's Wrong With CSS

We're currently in the midst of a CSS Zen Garden type excerise on our family of Q&A websites, which I affectionately refer to as "the Trilogy": * Server Fault * Super User * Stack Overflow * Meta Stack Overflow (In case you were wondering, yes, meta is the

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Firefox as an IDE

Although I prefer IE7's native speed and feel for day-to-day browsing chores, there's no doubt that Firefox is my primary web development IDE. Whenever I need to troubleshoot HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, I immediately reach for Firefox. That's primarily because of two incredibly powerful

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Stylesheets for Print and Handheld

A commenter recently noted that it was difficult to print the Programmer's Bill of Rights post. And he's right. It's high time I set up a print stylesheet for this website. I added the following link tag to the page header: <link rel=

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I Heart Cheatsheets

I'm a huge fan of Beagle Brothers style cheat sheets, because nothing promotes the illusion of mastery like a densely packed chart of obscure reference information: Just throw some of those babies up on your walls and people will know that they're clearly dealing with a

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The CSS Zen Garden and ASP.NET

The CSS Zen Garden [http://www.csszengarden.com] site isn't exactly new news these days, but I've been digesting the excellent CSS Zen Garden book [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321303474/codihorr-20] over the last few months and we now have an opportunity to

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Progressive Image Rendering

I'm a big fan of showing the user visual feedback as soon as possible, whether you're downloading a web page or rendering a windows form. Images already render progressively in a web browser -- but you can do even better. Simply save your GIF or PNG

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Because IE6 is the new Netscape 4.7x

As I read through all the articles spawned by the IE7 announcement (press release), I finally realized something: IE6 is the new Netscape 4.7x. It’s like we woke up one day, and IE6 had transformed overnight into the browser that we all wish would go away. The one

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WebFileManager updated

I updated the WebFileManager CodeProject article with some enhancements. It now supports zipping files and column sorting: I included both the code-behind and inline code versions of the page in the solution archive this time. There’s also a new dependency on SharpZipLib, assuming you want the remote file zipping

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