I've been hacking Firefox CSS to make the "Back" button bigger since 2004. Here's the latest version, so that you can have small toolbar buttons except for the Back button, which for obvious Fitt's law reasons, you want to be bigger b...

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It used to be the case that I pored over Mozilla (and later Firefox) release notes. But I stopped sometime in 2004, around the point when I accepted that XUL development was too hard to be doing in my spare time and yes, Firefox was clearly better than IE at just about everything. This means that I now miss all the cool announcements

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Remove Mark Pilgrim‘s sidebars and make the content full-width. Not perfect, but it works: #container { width: 90% !important; padding: 0 !important; padding-right: 10% !important; } I use the

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I’ve just applied for my European Health Insurance Card (no more E-111s!), and thought “gosh, isn’t this font small? and isn’t the menu highlight poorly written? that’s some bad CSS there I reckon – let’s take a look at the source”. So I did. Five minutes later, I came around. At various points in the source, there are four HTML Doctypes declared, each one followed by openi...

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It used to be the case, back in the day, where I’d highlight every big site I came across which used CSS for layout, or even validated; but there came a point where enough sites were starting to use CSS and validating, that I stopped. Still, it’s nice to reflect every now and again, and the new (to me, at least) oxfamunwrapped.com sit...

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This isn't available any more, sorry! A little while ago I wrote some CSS that applied Fitt’s Law to make the back button in Firefox bigger. At the time, someone said I should make it an e...

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I finally got around to spending ten minutes to create a new design for this site that I might not hate quite as much as the last one. The HTML is slightly better, the CSS is just as bad, and links are painfully non-obvious, which I’ll need to fix. An added bonus is that I’ve broken all the links in my sidebar – hooray for progress! And ...

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The WellStyled Workshop is yet another website about how to use standards-compliant code and CSS techniques to keep code clean, readable and semantic. Normally I’d just file this away under my del.icio.us links, but this one’s slightly different. Whilst t...

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I’ve noticed that developers have started using different hacks to get around IE box model issues, so was wondering what’s the current preferred method and why? I was relatively pleased to notice that my own position on the matter is the same as Anne van Kesteren: IE7 or putting IE6 into quirks mode a...

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I’ve just come across the CSS Property Index which is an alphabetical listing of CSS properties. Of course, there are many of these of different kinds across the web, but I’ve never found any as useful as the DevEdge Netscape Sidebar Tabs which provide Mozilla sideba...

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