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Paperfold CSS | Demo Studio | Mozilla Developer Network
A really impressive CSS demo for a "folding paper" show/hide effect.
design  development  web  css  inspiration  animation  ux 
19 days ago by gordonbrander
cssarrowplease
Make that bubble arrow border trick happen, without all the pain.
css  design  development  web 
19 days ago by gordonbrander
Animate.css - a bunch of plug-and-play CSS animations
This is great: a library of classy CSS animations. The logic for animations like this is mostly handled by CSS's tweening, but getting an animation to feel right takes a lot of time.
animation  css  development  web  design  opensource 
5 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Starbucks: Front-end Style Guide
Starbucks has a front-end styleguide. Brilliant!
css  design  development  web  business 
5 weeks ago by gordonbrander
A New Front-End Methodology: BEM | Smashing Coding
BEN has been something of a muse for @necolas lately. Good ideas here.
CSS  web  development  design  HTML  pattern  from iphone
5 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Responsive viewport units - destroy/dstorey
vw vh are units that are essentially the same as percentages, but are always in relation to the viewport. Think rem.
responsivedesign  css  grid  design  development  web 
6 weeks ago by gordonbrander
lesjames/Breakpoint
An interesting Sass-based bunch of mixins for responsive grids. Looks promising.
responsivedesign  grid  design  web  development  css  opensource 
6 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Responsive CSS3 Drop-Down to Accordion
Clever use of CSS: a dropdown menu that turns into an accordion when at small screen sizes.
css  web  development  responsivedesign 
7 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Lego - Landsbankinn
An example of a great front-end development styleguide: user interface Lego.
css  reference 
7 weeks ago by gordonbrander
The EMs have it: Proportional Media Queries FTW! Cloud Four Blog
Clever: using ems in media queries means contextual formatting when users scale fonts.
css  development  web  responsivedesign 
8 weeks ago by gordonbrander
About HTML semantics and front-end architecture – Nicolas Gallagher
Great ideas about class naming patterns. Also a great conversation starter re: modular front-end development.
css  architecture  development  web  pattern  html 
8 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures
Improved handling of kerning pairs and ligatures in modern browsers using the text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; declaration.

Firefox uses this by default for anything over 20px.
css  development  web  typography 
9 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Off Canvas
A clever approach to mobile content collapsing -- a bit Windows Phone 7-esque.
css  design  development  web  mobile 
9 weeks ago by gordonbrander
YUI Theater — Stephen Woods: “Creating Responsive HTML5 Touch Interfaces” (24 min.) » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog)
At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer Stephen Woods (@ysaw) shared his hard-won advice for building responsive touch-based interfaces using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. He also revealed how Star Trek: The Next Generation predicted the need for instant user feedback in a touch-based UI.
javascript  learn  mvc  css  animation  film 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Overthrow
A mobile/cross-browser poly fill for scrolling regions.
CSS  JavaScript  development  web  opensource  from iphone
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Alex Russell - Google+ - My (hopefully final) thoughts on the whole vendor prefix…
Alex Russel, Tantek and Brendan Eich have at it, debating vendor prefixes. I'm holding my breath.
mozilla  css  development  w3c 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Misdirection | Infrequently Noted
A very compelling counterpont to @t's vendor prefix position.
css  web  design  development 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer
Looks like IE is keeping track of this now. Compatibility tables for every major version of IE, dating back to 5.
ie  bug  css  learn 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
HTML5 Please - Use the new and shiny responsibly
This is great: the quick on whether you should use a given HTML5 feature.
html  reference  learn  javascript  css  development  web 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Widget Theming: Shadow DOM Example
Whoah. A practical implementer-focused look at what the Shadow DOM and W3C widgets can do, with a likely scenario.
web  development  learn  css  javascript  standard 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
CSS buttons with pseudo-elements
A nice set of 3d-esque buttons with CSS generated content (pseudo-elements).
css  development  design  web 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Does this easing make me look jerky? - Val Head is totally into design, type & code.
If you look at Chris' example below, it's pretty clear that the "ease" transition looks very jerky and just doesn't work well on the shorter width transition...

Luckily for us. other easing keywords, even one that is rather similar to "ease" like "ease-in-out", don't suffer from the jerkiness in similar situations.
css  design  development  web  animation 
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Move The Web Forward | Guide to getting involved with standards and browser development
How to contribute to the web as a whole. Links and suggestions by Paul Irish and more.
css  web  standard  community  html  javascript 
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Chrome Developer Tools: Timeline Panel - Google Chrome Developer Tools - Google Code
In-depth docs on Chrome's Developer Timeline tool, which can give you the deets on not just loading, but rendering and parsing time.
development  web  webkit  css  html  performance 
december 2011 by gordonbrander
#eCSStender.org { content: "Homepage"; }
Bringing CSS3 selectors to IE. Includes compound classes.
css  javascript  ie  bug  polyfill 
november 2011 by gordonbrander
CSS3 Secrets 10 things you might not know about CSS3
An impressive number of obscure-but-useful CSS tricks, including animation stuff, custom checkboxes, more.
css  web  development  learn 
november 2011 by gordonbrander
UI Pattern Library - By Aarron Walter of Mailchimp | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
A styleguide for Mailchimp's large and well-organized modular front-end architecture.
html  development  css  pattern  web 
november 2011 by gordonbrander
Ceaser - CSS Easing Animation Tool - Matthew Lein
An interface for generating CSS3 Animation easing equations. It includes all of the classic Penner equations (EaseOutQuart, EaseOutQuint, EaseOutSine, etc).
animation  css  tool  web  design  development 
november 2011 by gordonbrander
SimpLESS - Your LESS CSS Compiler
A cross-platform LESS compiler GUI built in Appcelerator Titanium.
opensource  nodejs  design  css  tool  development  windows  mac  app 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
A Modest Proposal for CSS3 Animations - Snook.ca
A clever trick for CSS animating opacity from display:block.
css  animation  learn  web  development 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Stylus
Like SASS, but hotter, and written in Node. As whitespace-sensitive pre-compilers go, this one's syntax is ace (all the usual caveats of switching syntax apply).
css  nodejs  opensource  library 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
cubic-bezier.com
Lea Verou makes a tool for creating custom beziers for CSS3 animations.
css  animation  tool 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Sassy Mother Effing Text Shadow
Insanity: a Lorenz Attractor implemented with CSS Text Shadow.
css  math  experiment 
september 2011 by gordonbrander
BEM
A component-based CSS framework (front-end legos). This one is more of a library.
css  framework  pattern  development  web 
september 2011 by gordonbrander
Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS
A short web book by Jonathan Snook (@snookca) exploring how to create re-usable CSS (it's the approach we employ here that we dub "front-end legos").
architecture  design  development  css  web  pattern 
september 2011 by gordonbrander
The makeup of the Open Web stack - destroy/dstorey
A mega-collection of Web Technologies and how they fit together.
css  html  javascript  web  development  api 
september 2011 by gordonbrander
Design & Build a Grid Based Web Design with CSS
Note the trick for creating quick baseline/vertical grids in Photoshop.
css  design  grid  bdw2011 
september 2011 by gordonbrander
Awwwards | The CSS website Awards
Lots of impressive work, very interaction/Javascript heavy. A bit like the old FWA awards site for modern web tech.
css  javascript  design  web  inspiration  html 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
Collection - Diesel > Denim & Jeans
Another Legwork production. HTML and Javascript. Impressive.
design  web  inspiration  javascript  html  css 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
CSS3 Patterns Gallery
This one makes you do a double-take: a variety of complex patterns, all constructed with CSS gradients.
css  design  development  web 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
Twitter Bootstrap
Twitter's CSS toolset has been open-sourced. Lots of default styles for grids, forms, etc. A nice time-saver.
css  framework  opensource  web  development  design 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
A Smoother Page Load — Joni Korpi
A clever approach to fading in content using TypeKit's loading API.
@font-face  css  javascript  design 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
Adactio: Journal—Re-tabulate
Brilliant: use media queries to reverse the position of the navigation and content.
css  mobile  development 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
nathansmith/adapt at master - GitHub
An alternate approach to responsive, relying exclusively on JS.
css  javascript  mobile  opensource  responsivedesign 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
CSS transitions & media queries » Blog » Elliot Jay Stocks
A clever idea: set css transitions on the body element when using media queries. All transitions are then animated.
css  mobile  animation 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
Give an image, get a data-uri — Gist
A class for converting an image to it's CSS base64 representation.
python  image  css  performance 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
Shower
Great prototype by an Opera dev for an HTML presentation template.
html  learn  inspiration  css 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
Pure CSS GUI icons (experimental) – Nicolas Gallagher
Clever. Using pseudo-elements to design icons without images.
css  design  learn 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
Cross Browser CSS Transforms – even in IE
A css transforms polyfill that gets 3d transforms working in Internet Explorer -- event v6!
css  javascript  transforms  animation  3d  ie  polyfill 
june 2011 by gordonbrander
CSS 101: interactive tutorial
A good intro to CSS basics. Probably assign as reading for next time I teach.
css  learn  teaching 
june 2011 by gordonbrander
320 and up
Andy Clarke puts together a responsive design framework.
css  design  web  development  html  opensource  mobile  from iphone
june 2011 by gordonbrander
Less Framework 4
The Less repsonsive layout framework is getting mature.
css  mobile  design  web  development  css  opensource  framework  grid  responsivedesign  mediaquery 
june 2011 by gordonbrander
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