Assistant Professor of Technical Communication, Illinois Institute of Technology
Suddenly it occurs to me that so-called “div-itis"--where web writers use tons of div tags instead of structural header or list tags--is probably caused, in part, by the fact that web browsers apply no default styling to those blocks. That, in turn, takes the guesswork out of styling. Of course, a reset CSS file is a much better option all around.
The less design, the less to eventually get sick of.
Google Prettify’s claim that it won’t interfere with embedded tags in code examples appears incorrect; if the code example is only HTML, Prettify will remove any embedded tags (like a strong tag used to highlight a code change). Adding non-HTML code to the sample allows the tags to remain, but the expected rendering of HTML code elements disappears, too.
A new design for karlstolley.com.
New Media, Old(er) Media alert: why is there such a disconnect between the compelling election primary graphics on broadcast CNN, versus the paltry offerings on CNN.com?
This is a dummy code snippit to test the Google prettify script:
/*Treat this as a comment*/
function but() { $this = "live code"; }
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’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: Exhausted from a long week, but nerding out over the new iPhone enhancements c/o today's software update.