Flash "Click to Active and Use Control"

15 September 2006 12:57 | web-development

I quite like Flash when used sparingly, but over the past few months I noticed that within IE I now have to click a Flash control before using it. This is a small thing but is annoying and hence reduces the usability of a site – especially when you see a link such as 'click to enter' which really means 'click once to activate me then click again to enter!'

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Removing a browsers default CSS settings

31 August 2006 16:18 | web-development

I found an article a while ago by Adrian Senior called CSS: Getting Into Good Coding Habits. This is an excellent article, but the part I have found very useful is where he discusses removing the browsers default settings. I have reproduced a slightly modified version below. I now use this as a starting point for stylesheets on evey new site I develop:

html, body, ul, ol, li, p,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6,
form, fieldset, a {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
}
body {
font-size: 100.01%; /* Fix for some browser bugs */
background-color: #ffffff;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-weight:normal;
font-size:100%;
}

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