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CSS Theme Week… And That’s All Folks!
We conclude our first ever CSS-themed week with a classic article that collates the most important CSS positioning properties.
Nigel Peck’s article CSS Positioning Properties At-A-Glance Guide was first published back in 2003, but five years later still stands strong as a compact summary of the basics of CSS positioning (although we updated a few points before republishing). In fact, the concept of this article formed the basis for the SitePoint CSS Reference, which was then expanded to include the HTML Reference, and we have a JavaScript Reference under development, so the article was quite seminal from our perspective.
In case you missed an article along the way, here’s the complete list of articles that we published this week:
- Monday: Nifty Navigation Tricks Using CSS (Rachel Andrews) — an article that is still popular for beginners looking to create visually interesting site navigation elements that are based on semantic markup
- Tuesday: Breaking Out of the Box With CSS Layouts (Jina Bolton) — a terrific example of what can be done to dispel the myth that all CSS layouts are boxy
- Wednesday: Warning: This Secret CSS Technique Will Surprise You! (Alex Walker) — just when you …
The Week in ColdFusion: 18-24 June: CFML, Fast and Furious
One of the big topics this week has been the announcement of the CFML Advisory Committee at CFUnited. This group, headed up by Sean Corfield, includes members of the Adobe ColdFusion community and the Railo community, but notably no one from the Open BlueDragon camp. Ben Forta has posted his thoughts on the committee, and a dialogue of sorts between Ben and Alan Williamson from Open BlueDragon resulted in the comments. Alan decided to introduce himself to the ColdFusion community as well as address some of the controversy, prompting a response from Rey Bango (again with involved discussions in the comments). The soap opera will no doubt continue and I’m hesitant to devote any more column space to it, but I think the committee itself is a step in the right direction to ensure the CFML language stays consistent amongst multiple implementations, and hopefully whatever the outcome of the drama, it will be for the benefit of the CFML community.
In fact, there’s already good signs that the community is serious about interoperability: Barney Boisvert reports that Railo has implemented the same underlying mechanisms for arrays and structs as Adobe ColdFusion and Open BlueDragon.
On the flip …
