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Lets play a little game I like to call Senseless Acts of Political Correctness.
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — Los Angeles officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms “master” and “slave” on computer equipment, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive.
Now you try.

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In a scathing article, ppk criticizes both ALA and Christian Heilmann for the ALA article JavaScript Image Replacement.
On a lighter note, in case you haven’t seen it—Amazing 3D sidewalk paintings [via mefi via 37signals].

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Everything that has a beginning has an end. Well, this ending was deeply disappointing.
I was prepared to see the best of the trilogy. What I saw was filler that didn’t answer my questions, didn’t tie up what I saw as loose ends, and didn’t serve the storyline of the main characters, which were the ones [...]

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We likey the new Quirksmode. Thank you PPK.

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Just a little DOM experiment in pulling a section of text out of a paragraph and making it a pull quote. What it does is use the EM element with a particular class to flag the section of text you want pulled, and then it formats it within a BLOCKQUOTE and inserts it before the [...]

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So there I was staring the FIR method in the face and asking, “Why Ziploc® the image in the CSS?”
It didn’t seem like reusable code to me. For every piece of content or text you wanted to use the technique on, you needed to add another declaration in your CSS. It becomes sort of impractical [...]

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Update!—Turns out I spoke too soon. This problem occurred in version 7.20 build 3087. After finding this little problem last Thursday, I submitted a bug report to Opera. The latest version 7.20 build 3144 does not experience this problem. I’d rather see them rev the version rather than silently change the build number, since they [...]

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So to make up for lost time I thought I’d share another little thing I’ve been playing with. [ed—No, it’s not that!] It’s a CSS/DOM enhanced form.
The form is basically styled with CSS, and then I use the DOM for couple of subtle enhancements. What the DOM script does is look for all INPUT and [...]

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So I was trying to work out a CSS version of some information that was previously formatted in a table. This CSS formatted list is what I came up with so far. [Ed note—Although coded using fixed widths, it can be modified to be variable width. And don’t think we don’t know how to do [...]

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About a year or so ago, I did some host shopping, and after a bit of research, I was pretty confident about my switch to a new host. I knew it was a small, two-man operation, and apart from a few glitches, and slow response to support requests, I was happy with the cost/features. I [...]

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