One day, Neil Crosby wanted to shadow some text using CSS. "So, the challenge was simple. Come up with some CSS which will produce drop shadows in as large a percentage of peoples’ web browsers as possible, leaving the browsers which are incapable of showing text shadows with unstyled text. Sounds simple? Well, for the most part, it was…
There are already tutorials out on the web which tell you how to produce text-shadows for various web browsers. The problem is, they all seem to focus on one particular browser, rather than producing a cross
{Update: We inferred logic where there was none. The W3C has not changed the behavior of its validation service per the rationale explored below. The service is simply broken. Presumably it will get fixed. Meanwhile, many valid CSS sites will be incorrectly labeled invalid. Don’t start redesigning just yet.}
The W3C’s CSS validation service has changed the way it interprets CSS authoring practices. Many sites that were designed valid no longer validate. The change in behavior affects sites that use the box model hack to compensate for the
For those who are unfamiliar with what validating a web page (ie validating your HTML or CSS code) means, it basically refers to using a program or an online service to check that the web page that you created is free of errors.
In particular, an HTML validator checks to make sure the HTML code on your web page complies with the standards set by the W3 Consortium (the organisation that issues the HTML standards). There are various types of validators - some check only for errors, others also make suggestions about your code, telling you when a
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