Scott Taylor's bookmarked articles
A lot of my reading material these days comes from online articles. The articles below are ones that I felt were particularly well written or useful. The articles are listed in no particular order.
- CSS 2 Selector Fundamentals
- Provides a thorough explanation of the different kinds of selectors in CSS2.
- CSS cheat sheet
- The CSS cheat sheet acts as a reminder and reference sheet, listing all selectors (as of CSS 2.1) and properties.
- CSS Positioning
- This article gives an overview of the methods and rules that govern visual rendering in the CSS2 specification.
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets
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Ever wonder why sometimes you can write international characters like
å, ä, or ö directly in an HTML file and other times
you need to use character entity references like
å,ä, andö? Find the answer in this excellent article from Joel Spolsky. - XSLT Tutorial
- A great online introduction to XSLT. This was the article that help me get started with XSLT back in 2001.
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