Nifty Corners Cube is an image-free way of building rounded corners!
CSS
Docking boxes
Docking boxes (dbx) “adds animated drag ‘n’ drop, snap-to-grid, and show/hide-contents functionality to any group of elements. And … in what might be another world-first for brothercake – dbx is fully accessible to the keyboard as well as the mouse, an action I’ve dubbed “press ‘n’ move”.” This looks interesting, and may well join my tool box for future sites. Though I need to compare its functionality with some of the other JS tool sets that are AJAXified, I’m very excited about the fact that it is keyboard accessible, and hope that it degrades nicely for screen readers.
CSS Problem Solving Panel Survey
CSS Problem Solving Panel Survey – I just may have something to add to the survey, but I need to set it up properly for submission.
Design and Web Books
While I don’t have much time to actively participate in the Designers in House List, to which I subscribe, I enjoy reading many of the threads. One recent thread from a while back, titled “Your favourite web design book” served as a reminder that I should update my list of Web and design-related book recommendations. It’s been quite a while. So, here is a brain dump of the tomes on my bookshelf and ones that should be. The list is by no means comprehensive – I would love to hear your recommendations!
Items without a rating indicates that I do not own the book, but believe it is worth attention due to recommendations from other Web-type folks, or that I hold the author in high respect due to their other work and contributions to our industry.
Unitless line-heights
Eric Meyer sheds some light on the interesting application of line-height within the cascade, specifically he recommends implementing Unitless line-heights (‘1’ instead of ‘1em’ or ‘100%’ for example) in order to avoid the wrong values flowing down the cascade to descendant elements. I highly recommend you check it out should you be a Web dev type of person.