Kimili is the personal site of Michael Bester
Based in Massachusetts, Michael builds websites & a few other things. He sometimes writes as well. Questions?
RGBa CSS Generator for Internet Explorer
04 Dec 09
If you’ve been keeping up with how recent browsers have been implementing parts of the CSS3 spec, you may already be using RGBa to define semi-transparent background colors. You’d also know that this works in recent versions of Firefox and Safari, but not in any version of Internet Explorer.
There are, however, workarounds to get semi-transparent backgrounds working in IE. I’ve put together a little tool to make using one of these workarounds easier.
Mamma Licia
13 Nov 09
Being a married man has made me a better person in many ways; my wife has taught me much – much more than she realizes. One of the things she taught me is to pay more attention to and have greater appreciation for the food I eat. In my young and single days, the staples of my diet were sugary cereals, pizza, burgers or chili from Wendy’s and grilled chicken breast. Today, that has all changed.
Flexible Scalable Background Image
20 May 09
When I get Photoshop comps from designers to build in HTML, CSS and Javascript, there are inevitably some elements of the designs which work well in the Ivory Tower of Photoshop, but present unique challenges when translating those elements into code a browser can work with. One such element on a project I recently completed featured a fixed size content area layered over background image that took up the entire browser window. Here’s how I implemented it.
