IE8 Rounded Corners using jQuery

This site continues to receive a large amount of traffic from people searching for a solution to achieving rounded corners in IE8. Clearly, it’s a hot topic, and my previous post about using DD_Roundies has hopefully helped developers along their way. I recently had an issue with DD_Roundies where the border width was 1 pixel [ more » ]

grid960 – a grid overlay bookmarklet for 960.gs

This bookmarklet has now been updated to support 24 columns Please also see grid960 bookmarklet – now with 24 columns/ A couple of days ago I released a jQuery plugin that provides a grid overlay when working with the 960.gs css grid framework. The plugin seems to have been quite popular, and as a result [ more » ]

960.gs grid overlay – a jQuery plugin

I’ve now released a bookmarklet to provide a simpler gird overlay. Please also see grid960 – a grid overlay bookmarklet for 960.gs I’ve been using 960.gs on a few sites recently. Without wanting to get into a discussion about the pros/cons of using css grid frameworks, I find them useful for some sites. The 960.gs [ more » ]

Replacing target=”_blank” for Strict XHTML using JQuery (redux)

Some time ago, I provided a simple JQuery solution for replacing target=”_blank” when writing Strict XHTML. However, one commenter recently pointed out that my solution does not work if the rel attribute contains more than one value e.g. rel=”external nofollow” Well, JQuery to the rescue again. A very slight modification to the Attribute Filter fixes [ more » ]

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