Archive for June, 2008

I used Entourage 2004 on my MacBook for about a year and then, in January, I upgraded to Entourage 2008. There were a couple of things I found frustrating about Entourage (especially compared with Outlook 2000 on the PC) such as the inability to easily put tables into HTML emails. But I persevered until last week when I finally upgraded to Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. The following article is a review of the pluses and minuses for Entourage 2008 versus the free Apple Mail 3.3 that comes with Leopard. (more…)

I read a blog post recently showing how to create a button with an image and text. The button looked very simple and very nice to look at, but the HTML was more complicated than I thought it needed to be.

There is a move now to make the HTML of a document as simple and self-explanatory as possible. The HTML should contain the intent of the page, CSS (and possibly JavaScript) is then used “skin” the page as required. This has become more feasible now that browsers are finally maturing and supporting more and more of the CSS standard.

So, if we want a button, we should use the <button>…</button> tag. If we want to have an add button, we want to have:

<button class="imageButton add" onclick="addSomething(); return false;">Add Something</button>

And instead of this

Add Something

we want it to look like this:

Add Something
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