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Scott Gledhill’s presentation Real World Web Standards podcast and slideshow from Web Directions.

The Sitepoint article on the Internet Explorer hasLayout Property explains why this bugbear of web design exists and a few ways of fixing it.

Roberto Baca has some expanded conversation to add to Andy Rutledge’s article titled the Employable Web Designer. The world of the web designer isn’t a specialisation of graphic design at all, its far larger and more complex than designing posters that have buttons. The moment you add human perception, information and interaction (plus an array of technologies and sciences) then we’ve well and truely passed graphic design by the wayside. True, graphic design is a part of what we do but its a bigger, more complex picture.

The Stylish 0.5.7 Firefox plugin allows you to set site specific stylesheet changes (which I’m finding handy).

Eric Sol in Issue 261 of A List Apart has written about a new grid layout technique called Faux Absolute Positioning which exploits the best of both worlds - floats and absolute positioning. Its an interesting approach that shows some promise although I’m always wary of techniques which require extra divs.

Easy Vertical Centering with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) shows a very simple way to achieve the result using a float. Its always nice to find a better way to achieve results.

You’re probably hearing a lot about the great potential of generated content on the web but Eric Meyer has under 2 minutes of pursuasive argument why this isn’t a good idea. Just by looking at the issues related to generated quotation marks across location, culture, operating system and browser this is just impractical.

CSS Reflections in WebKit - cool. You might also like to read about CSS Gradients, Transforms, Animations and Masks - way cool.