Archive for the ‘CSS’ Category

CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10 – IEBlog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs. Some CSS3 3D Transform information has been published on IEBlog that’s worth checking out. I’m continually impressed with the work the IE team is doing, and this continues with that trend.

The CSS3 Test. With so much going on with CSS3 it’s sometimes difficult to remember whether or not a specific browser (or specific version of a specific browser) supports a particular feature of CSS3. Instead of wrestling through docs, something like The CSS3 Test might save you a few minutes here or there. By simply [...]

Font-Embedding Icons the Right Way—A Legitimate Alternative to Images — Some Random Dude. PJ is a smart dude. I’m using Iconic on this site and just love what it has blossomed into. PJ has been researching best practices in implementing a custom icon set via @font-face, specifically focusing on degradation situations and accessibility. By way [...]

Bootstrap, from Twitter. Bootstrap 2.0 is here, and it’s beyond impressive. I don’t talk much about frameworks, especially frameworks involving CSS, but the purpose of Bootstrap isn’t really a springboard for your latest client project, it’s a springboard for your project and I love that. Version 2.0 blew me away with coverage and implementation. I’m [...]

HTML5 Dev Conf: Webkit in Your Living Room – Netflix – YouTube. This is a fantastic look at the detail you need to mind when writing modern CSS. I can near guarantee that Netflix delivers WebKit-based UI to a wider variety of platforms than we do, each requiring considerations we normally don’t have to worry [...]

New CSS3 Properties to Handle Text and Word Wrapping | Impressive Webs. Type is an interesting segment of front end development. It’s always felt like an untamed beast, but that’s gotten better over the past couple of years with the adoption of @font-face and the number of foundries now offering Web fonts. While that handles [...]

Mac OS X Lion with CSS3 | Blog of Alessio Atzeni | Web Design Tutorials and Front-end Development Blog by Alessio Atzeni. Novelty side projects are awesome. Unfortunately many are ridiculed for being a waste of time but in my opinion they’re gold when it comes to self-education. Imagine the OS X Lion experience recreated [...]

CSS1K. The CSS Zen Garden is a place of history. So many of us cut our teeth there as we wrapped our heads around the concept of CSS. CSS was awesome back then, and remains a keystone technology of the modern Web. CSS1K is A demonstration of what can be accomplished with only 1 K [...]

CSSDeck. One of the great things about front end development is the ease of access to the source code. If you’re curious about how something works, with enough ambition you’ll be able to figure it out exactly by viewing a few readily accessible source files. That’s very unlike the world of programming, so it’s something [...]

CSSrefresh – automatically refresh CSS files. This is a neat little script you can use during development that might make your life easier. It’s sole responsibility is to refresh the CSS of your site at the time the stylesheet is saved, preventing you from having to refresh the browser to see a style update. Check [...]