#css (940 links)
- SimpleBits ~ Gridlasticness simplebits.com
A few notes when trying to create a grid layout using ems
- Full Page Zoom Is For Sissies tomayko.com
About a year ago, I spent the better part of a day making this site's layout entirely em based and set on a vertical baseline grid [..] Your CSS becomes completely unmaintainable.
- Eric's Archived Thoughts: Resetting Again meyerweb.com
More CSS resetting from Eric Meyer.
- Digital Web Magazine - CSS Not([hacks]) digital-web.com
"The possibilities of using CSS3 selectors as an alternative to hacks when targeting specific browsers." Novel.
I have put together a matrix of (western) fonts showing which are installed with Mac and Windows operating systems, which are installed with various versions of Microsoft Office, and which are installed with Adobe Creative Suite.
- CSS Unworking Group | Malarkey Rides Again stuffandnonsense.co.uk
Following Opera's action, today I am calling on Bert Bos, chairman of the CSS Working Group, and those higher up within the W3C including Sir Tim Berners Lee, to immediately disband the CSS Working Group in its current form.
- 24 ways: CSS for Accessibility 24ways.org
A few new tips in here.
- 24 ways: Back To The Future of Print 24ways.org
8 tips and 4 main gotchas when creating print stylesheets in our more enlightened era.
- 24 ways: Minification: A Christmas Diet 24ways.org
Some tools to trim the fat and speed up our sites.
What we can do to support IE6 users whilst taking full advantage of transparency for the majority of a site’s visitors.
What you need to do to ensure that your emails not only look great in today’s email clients but also actually make it to where they’re going.
- JeffCroft.com: What’s not to love about CSS frameworks? www2.jeffcroft.com
I’m asking publicly, and hoping these folks will show up here to give me their answers: What is it about CSS frameworks that bothers you?
Extension of big red angry text but c'mon... CSS expressions? Evil!
- Quirksmode - CSS - Contents and compatibility quirksmode.org
Dead handy.
- MRI :: for web developers westciv.com
A free cross browser tool that lets you test selectors with any web page. Selectors, particularly complex ones can be difficult to get exactly right - MRI lets you experiment with them on any web page (local or online, static or dynamic).
- Designing For Every Browser: How To Make Your Site Fully Cross Browser Compatible > Design Vitality designvitality.com
Poor article but some potentially useful resources.
- Helping your client maintain markup quality | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
"Make any errors or suspicious markup obvious to the person working on the document." Been doing this for a while - had lost the original source.
- Website Performance | CSS Sprite Generator spritegen.website-performance.org
"Today's battle was support for the empty-cells property". How did I not know this?
- Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » CSS 3: A Giant Serving Of FAIL alex.dojotoolkit.org
- CSS Frameworks + CSS Reset: Design From Scratch | CSS smashingmagazine.com
A look at the idea behind CSS Frameworks, their advantages and disadvantages.
Web Safe Typography on Screen for Pixel Perfectionists
- Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM // ShaunInman.com shauninman.com
File inputs are the bane of beautiful form design. [...] This simple, three-part progressive enhancement provides the markup, CSS, and JavaScript to address the long-standing irritation.
- Eric's Archived Thoughts: Diagnostic Styling meyerweb.com
The primary goal here is to have a set of rules that can be applied during the development phase of a new layout. These rules’ aim is to visually highlight problems in the markup.
- CSS - the antithesis of frameworks « AlastairC alastairc.ac
There are certainly situations where CSS frameworks are useful, but it just doesn’t seem right to change the HTML to use them (for production sites).
Tripoli is a generic CSS standard for HTML rendering. By resetting and rebuilding browser standards, Tripoli forms a stable, cross-browser rendering foundation for your web projects.
- #haml.Documentation.Sass haml.hamptoncatlin.com
"Sass is a meta-language on top of CSS that‘s used to describe the style of a document cleanly and structurally, with more power than flat CSS allows. Sass both provides a simpler, more elegant syntax for CSS and implements various features that are use
- Adactio: Journal - Wireframework adactio.com
Unless I’m creating cookie-cutter sites, I don’t think a CSS framework can help me. That said, I think a framework like Blueprint has its place.
- Rightclick » Launch of Stylus CSS Framework v.0.1 rightclick.ro
Another CSS framework.
- Blueprint. A CSS Framework. : Journal : Mark Boulton markboulton.co.uk
Another Blueprint discussion
- JeffCroft.com: The myth of content and presentation separation www2.jeffcroft.com
The idea that a redesign of anything more than the most basic of sites will not require changes to (X)HTML markup is simply a myth.
- Subtraction: The Framework Formally Known as ’Prints subtraction.com
Khoi Vinh interviews Olav Frihagen, creator of Blueprint framework.
- Blueprint: A CSS Framework bjorkoy.com
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
- Dust-Me Selectors sitepoint.com
Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension (for v1.5 or later) that finds unused CSS selectors.
- CSS Specificity Calculator rebelinblue.com
Paste your CSS into the field below, the specificity of your selectors will be calculated for you.
- CSS Redundancy Checker services.immike.net
Use this tool to find CSS selectors that aren't used by any of your HTML files and may be redundant.
- The Learn List thelearnlist.com
A super simple resource that aims to gather the best tutorial and book links from all over the web.
- css-redundancy-checker - Google Code code.google.com
A simple script that, given a CSS stylesheet and either a .txt file listing URLs of HTML files, or a directory of HTML files, will iterate over them all and list the CSS statements in the stylesheet which are never called in the HTML."
- Five simple steps to better typography : Journal : Mark Boulton markboulton.co.uk
"The kind of typography I'm talking about is not your typical "What font should I use" typography but rather your "knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash" typography."
- The Sandbox · plaintxt.org plaintxt.org
The Sandbox is a theme for themers. It has the ability to be easily skinned, so beginners will feel comfortable styling it since they only need to know CSS. More experienced designers will drool at the rich semantic markup.
With proper PNG support in Internet Explorer 7, and some handy JavaScript and CSS tricks to account for older browsers, we can use PNG images to greatly enhance our design vocabulary.
- 70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding | Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com