Assistant Professor of Technical Communication, Illinois Institute of Technology
I just noticed that Pederick’s Web Developer toolbar scrolls back to the top of a page when using Edit CSS on embedded CSS. Editing a linked (and perhaps imported?) stylesheet does not affect the scrolled position on a page.
Somehow I managed to forget that right-aligning a relatively positioned element in CSS is easily achieved with a fixed width and margin-left: auto;
I was surprised to see today that MSNBC.com is now using a Flash-based video player, abandoning the use of Windows Media Player. Not sure how long this has been going on; I only checked it today out of curiosity. “YouTube Effect,” maybe?
I’m an assistant professor of technical communication at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL. I completed my PhD in rhetoric and composition at Purdue University in 2007.
This fall, I am teaching graduate seminars in Information Structure and Retrieval, and Open Source in Technical Communication.
On Twitter: Pretty darned pleased with the article proposal Colin and I put together. We'll see what the editors think.