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This is a transcript from a Facebook conversation regarding CSS columns that expand to full/equal vertical height:

Anon Friend March 1 at 3:48pm
FUCK THEM OMGOMGOMG I”M GONNA USE A TABLE

Thank you, I needed that.

Mimi Flynn March 1 at 3:55pm
NO!!! DON’T DO IT!!!
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It used to be that one would have to finagle with their Mac OS X to get a test server running. I’ve spent many an hour on my old titanium Powerbook typing away at the terminal essentially feeling about in the dark, until PHP would parse in my browser from a local directory.

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Windows:
WAMPserver

Mac:
MAMP

Windows, Mac, *nix:
XAMPP
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Add the following attributes to all embedded videos or maps that appear in front of a static element (such as a toolbar or footer bar) to push them back where they belong:

style="z-index: 0" wmode="transparent"

Its very rare that you would need to do this, but more statically positioned toolbars and such have been popping up all over the place, so, it seems it will become more and more common as this trend spreads.