More than two years ago, in September 2004, I published an article entitled Styling. My aim in this article show that the attempt to use CSS, to make a form that would vygledela in all browsers and operating systems equally, is useless Zanati. At the moment it just can not be done.

After the discussion on the use of CSS for form elements, constantly there are new versions of browsers and operating systems, as well as entirely new browsers were released in September 2004, it is time to upgrade.

Because of all this I spent a lot of time to create a total of 224 screens showing the various CSS rules applied to forms of governance. Screenshots are taken from 8 browsers on 4 operating systems, a total of 14 different combinations of browser + OS.

CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter. Basically, it takes your CSS code and makes it cleaner and more concise.

The CSS optimizer was originally developed by some awesome dudes over at CSS Tidy. They built the program and have made it free for everyone to use. I stumbled across their optimizer one day while looking for help with my CSS. I wanted to know the shortest way I could style a background of a web site without having to use all the "background-image" and "background-repeat" tags. I found some other optimizers which I tried, but none worked as well as CSS Tidy. It was actually hosted on some random CD Burning website. Why? I have no idea.

But after I posted about it on my blog, I noticed that a week later, the site no longer existed. I was bummed because I was trying to show my fellow designers at work this amazing utility. So I took the liberty and installed CSS Tidy on my own webserver and registerd cleancss.com. I also styled it up to my liking (see the grass green colors?). So now I can make sure this kick-ass CSS utility stays up forever. And gets used by web designers everywhere.

If you had to use PHP, then you have used and expansion. With few exceptions, each available for use by function in the PHP language is grouped into one or another extension. Most of the functions (over 400) is part of the standard extensions. PHP source code distributed with some 86 extensions, which have about 30 functions in each. Taking, we get somewhere in 2500 in the amount of functions. If this is not enough, PECL repository offers more than 100 additional extensions, even more can be found in the vast Internet.

The material presented in this article implies familiarity with the language itself as PHP, and with the language of the interpreter is written PHP: C.

To begin with, that we define the reasons for which you want to write an extension for PHP:

• The existence of some libraries or OS specific calls, which can not be made from PHP directly because of the level of abstraction adopted in the language;
• You want to get PHP to work non-standard way;
• Do you already have the solution written in PHP, but you know that it can be fast, compact and consume less memory during the operation;
• Do you have a special code that you would like to sell. However, it is important that the buyer would be able to run your code, but do not watch the source.

All of the above reasons are quite adequate, but, creating expanding, first of all you should understand that this is primarily expansion.

Stack Overflow is a favorite by many programmers site where you can ask a professional question and get answers from colleagues. This project was written by two no known guys that no one had never heard. Well, not quite. Stack Overflow was created by programmers and top-end stars of the blogosphere: Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. In this regard, Stack Overflow is like a restaurant, owned by celebrities. According Joel'a about 1 / 3 of programmers around the world have used this online resource, so be it represents something quite useful and interesting.

To understand how popular resource, here are some excerpts from the statistics on the site Stack Overflow

• 16 million page views per month
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• 86% of traffic comes from Google
• 9 million active programmers in the world and 30% use Stack Overflow

If it is used in the draft non-standard font, it is possible to go several ways:

• B-method - do not use custom fonts in CSS is enough to say body (font-family: sans-serif;) and not fool his head.
• Cattle-method - cut out ZhPEGov, pictures with titles, shrink harder, what would appeared blurred and insert images instead of text. Very popular in our open spaces method.
• W3C-method - use @ font-family and enjoy the beauty of literature without zamorochek. While this method is not seen as a worker, because of the weak supported by your browser.
• sIFR - coolest, most used today, but as a drawback - requires Flash-plugin. Although it is difficult to name a disadvantage, but if there is a tool to do without plug-ins, it can not but rejoice.
• Cufón - thing is. A relatively new technique that shows excellent results. He is the hero of this article.