As you can see from my site’s lack of design (davidwalsh.name), I’m about 90% programmer and 10% designer. As someone that’s not a designer, I’m really grateful for websites like ColourLovers — websites that provide you palettes of colors that look good together. Let’s pretend for a moment that I do have a good design and I want others to know my palette. MooTools 1.2 has made that a reality.
A rarely used CSS property that can be very useful given the right circumstances is the table-layout property. It has great rendering speed benefit when used properly. Obviously this will only apply to HTML <table>s, which I know none of you would EVER overuse. Tables are not totally evil, they have their proper implementations and their really, really bad ones. OK, on to the code:
/* Set table to "fixed" (fastest render) layout */
.fixed_table {
table-layout: fixed;
}
/* Set table to "auto" (best fit) layout. This is the default */
.auto_table {
table-layout: auto;
}
In this post I’ll give you the necessary tools to change the look of Thunderbird and give you some suggestions (and code, of course :) to help you along the way. First, let me give credit to Twister MC’s wonderful post that I will be using as a reference for the label coloring scripts below. OK, let’s get started!
It’s been awhile since we