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CSS: Styling File Upload / Select Input Control <input type="file" … />

Let’s face it, the native implementations of file uploading control of HTML form is ugly, throughout most of the browsers, and not consistent at all. Plus, <input type=”file” … /> just doesn’t play by quite a few of the CSS input styling rules such as border and background, making it a even bigger challenge. Now …

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What are the Mandarin Chinese web safe fonts?

As I’m a mainlander Chinese, I can only speak for those computers and browsers who live in central P.R.China. If you are making a design for or in Mandarin Chinese, especially Simplified Chinese, beside those common English web safe fonts such as Arial and Verdana shipped in MS Windows by default that 95% mainlander Chinese …

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Let’s use Lucida Grande for a change – 13 web safe fonts revisited

The 10 web safe fonts, Arial, Impact, Georgia, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Comic Sans MS, Verdana, Tahoma — ahhh, wait a minute, I can’t remember the last 2. Let me take a look at the 9 web safe fonts, ok, it’s Courier New and Arial Black. Tahoma isn’t included in the 9 browser safe …

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One SSI directive to save all programming muggle’s effort and time

SSI stands for Server Side Includes that is a default module in Apache web server. In essence, it provides a very simple mechanism to include one HTML file in another one, thus tremendously reducing redundant coding and increase the ease of later maintenance. So, to get 80% out of SSI, the only directive you pretty …

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