Popularity of Browser Popularity Reporting

Seems like browser stats are all the rage this month. A few weeks ago Tim Bray started posting ongoing’s weekly browser usage, and now Jeremy Zawodny has gone and pulled together a few other sites including his own. Jeremy raises a few questions about audience makeup (particularly that of blogs vs. ‘normal’ sites), and the impact of RSS, but doesn’t make much of an attempt to draw any conclusions. Then again, I don’t either.

Abusing Margins

Something that has come up time and time again, and then again a few times this week, has been the use and abuse of margins and padding in CSS based layouts. I thought I’d quickly point out 3 cases where margins and padding can be used to ones advantage – column based layouts, vertical centering & a workaround for poor support for min-height.