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Herein lie various demonstrations of my mighty coding prowess. Well, however you want to think about it. Most of the stuff works.
General Philosophy:
After working on computers in various capacities for over 40 years [I find it hard to believe, but it's true] and having tried many things, I've come to some heart-wrenching conclusions:
All of the demos are not shown directly. Everything is displayed by a page which provides headers, footers, then runs the page and then exposes all of the code.
Prepare to be Amazed!!! [this is a hokey pseudo-animation using relative positioning - do a mouseover to see the grey line wiggle!]
Most of this stuff comes from work over the past five or ten years and various books.
For a server, I usually roll my own apache and php from source and put them on a linux box. My impression is that 'out of the box' configurations for the popular Linux distributions are almost always a few versions behind the stable edge.
I prefer being on the stable edge, just safely behind the unstable one.
This stuff is pretty Raw at this point
This is what I plan - nothing is here yet. I'm putting the (so called) finishing touches on my data table editor. The non-Javascript version is working, but not the AJAXified one.
Stay Tuned
Most of these demos are from a talk I gave in 2006 at the Desert Code Camp in Phoenix. I (naively) signed up to talk on Advance CSS, thinking that I knew something. After spending about a month reading and writing tests, I guess I did - but not what I would really call Advanced CSS.
Each of these demos shows the CSS at the top of the page, the HTML for the page, and finally the resulting display. I've used a lot of contrasting backgrounds to show the bounding boxes - which I found very interesting when examining floating.
CSS has some serious flaws - just as HTML did 10 years ago. It's going to be really interesting to see how CSS 3 deals with them.