Spartanicus' Web tips

Introduction

Most web authors have a folder with experiments, some of mine are listed here. Note that they may be to fragile to use when reliability is important. Also listed are a few articles that examine issues which are not so frequently addressed on other sites.

Articles

• No to XHTML

  Quite a few people have jumped on the XHTML bandwagon, this article examines the claims made about XHTML, and it lists the problems that arise from using it.

• To embed, or not to embed - that is the question.

  Embedding external content into web pages; drawbacks and alternatives.

• Streaming audio/video

  How to stream audio/video from a web site with a standard http server.

• Getting help from C.I.W.A.S: help us to help you

  How to get help from the comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets news group, and how to construct a minimised test case.

• Proprietary Audio/Video formats, should we use them on the web?

  The drawbacks of using proprietary Audio/Video formats and the available alternatives.

• Creating accessible multimedia for the web

  A quick and dirty guide to creating forward looking accessible multimedia files for the web.

Experiments

• Centered Image Gallery with captions (revised)

  An attempt at answering a FAQ: "How do I code an centered image gallery with captions?".

• Link offsets

  A CSS2 solution for CSS layouts that use a fixed top section where following in-document links cause the link to be presented at the top of the viewport where it is obscured by the fixed top section.

• Embedding decorative foreground images with CSS

  Shouldn't decorative images be inserted with CSS?

• Left and Right alignment using CSS

  An example of how to align text or links both left and right in the same vertical space.

• Printing high resolution images

  2 CSS methods for using higher resolution images for printing.