As discussed here, I’m really getting into CSS3 Attribute Selectors. As mentioned earlier in my Yo-Yo post, I’ve been looking into solutions to make these guys more accessible, and I’ve come full circle to realize that I don’t need to do anything extra to incorporate them in my website and have users see them in any major browser. This is because:

1. The modern versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera all support them. (Here’s a test page at Mindfly’s website to prove the point).

2. The Dean Edwards IE7 script DOES extend full CSS3 attribute selector support to IE6 (I’m guessing my earlier tests had an error, because now I’m showing full compliance with this second test page that includes that script (once again, at Mindfly).

The CSS3 features I’m really looking for support for now, then, are the CSS3 pseudoclasses and multiple background images. *drool* Multiple background images alone would help cut down on my markup immensely, making features such as rounded boxes so much less of a pain in the arse.

I’m a few days too late for CSS Naked Day, so what’s going on?

The fact is, the existing “design” for the site was a quick, hacky skinning of Wordpress, done in about an hour of time with little regard to the end result. It was ugly. And I’m tired of it.

So I’ve stripped the site of it’s design for two reasons: 1. I hated what I had, and 2. Now every time that I look at the site I’ll see the bare bones staring back at me. It’s my hope that this will influence me to get off my lazy ass and actually put up the design I had in mind for the site all along.

I have a co-worker that made a comment about painters never having nice houses. I get the feeling that web developers often have unfinished websites. I’m hoping to break that pattern myself.

In other news, I’ve been checking out Twitter more. I know it’s yesterday’s news, but there’s a lot of neat things you can do with it that I’m thinking of trying to integrate into the site. We’ll see if that works out.

Ok, time for a dentist appointment. Yay.

I tried really hard to start this post with a pop culture reference that somehow allegorically tied Alan Ruck’s relative anonymity despite his years of acting (including a major role in the pinnacle of 80’s teen films: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) to the subject of toiling away at web design solutions on a daily basis. After reading what I just wrote, I realize that I may have too much spare time on my hands.

Fortunately for me, I spend at least a little of that time doing other things, like actually working on previously mentioned web design solutions. One area of interest that I’ve been getting more and more obsessed with is using Javascript to allow cross-browser CSS3 functionality on modern browsers, despite the fact that short of Konquerer, (which really annoys me because of the ‘cool’ spelling of a word with the letter K) browsers probably won’t be doing a lot of note with CSS3 until sometime after global warming causes the seas to rise and dolphins enslave humanity.

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My so-called social calendar has suddenly filled up right after uploading all my blog software. So although this site will eventually look customized, sleek, and entirely different, for the moment it’ll have to look just like a really nekkid blog.

Misspelling words on purpose, how enjoyable!

My current CSS tomfoolery involves creating a javascript file that can convert proper CSS3 selector pseudoclasses like :nth-child(#) into Offspring-compatible fake pseudoclasses like “.nth-child-#”. It’s about 80% there, but I’ve ran into an issue where JS doesn’t recognize a selector as a selector if it’s got “(” or “)” in it, which is what nth-child makes heavy use of. If I can’t conceive of a workaround, it’ll tank the mini-project. Arrr…