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Dave Klein: Interview with Paul Irish, HTML5 expert and community leader (Inspire Magazine)
I think it’s important to publish what you learn. There’s really no school for front-end development. You can’t go to a university for a JavaScript degree or a class about how browsers work. Most of us learn from blogs and Twitter. Early in my career, I learned a bunch of things whenever I worked on a project, but I never told other people about them. So my general advice is to publish what you learn, share with the community, and collaborate on projects that help move the community forward.
inspiration  webdevelopment  css  html  design 
9 weeks ago by matthewmcvickar
Mathias Bynens: Notes Archive
As Paul Irish put it, ‘Some of the finest research and writing about HTML & CSS & JS.’
html  js  css  webdevelopment 
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Smashing Magazine: 16 Pixels: For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake
‘There are some particular findings that are pivotal to issues such as readership and readability and comprehension, which is really what body copy is all about. If people won’t read it, or if they can’t read it or understand it, then what’s the point of having it?’
typography  webdesign  css  design 
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
CSS Prototyping
‘This is a simple trick to overlay a grid or a mock-up over a page you're styling. It will also allow you to edit content directly in the browser to see how your layout behaves depending on various lines of text.’
css  webdesign  webdevelopment  copywriting  grid 
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
David Walsh: Change Mobile Safari Highlight Color with CSS
Change the tap highlight color in WebKit Mobile-using devices (many of them).
webkit  css  ios  webdesign  webdevelopment 
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
CSS Lint
Looks at your CSS and tells you what's wrong with it.
css  webdevelopment 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
On having layout — the concept of hasLayout in IE/Win
Deep inspection of hasLayout, the cause of most 'IE bugs'. Last updated 2008.
css  ie  webdesign 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
PageUp People: Front end standards
Return to this. A good set of standards, including some things that I wasn't aware of and would like to implement.
css  html  reference  webdevelopment  performance 
may 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Nicolas Gallagher: CSS drop-shadows without images
“Lifted corners, Curled corners, Perspective, Raised box, Single vertical curve, Vertical curves, Single horizontal curve, Horizontal curves, Rotated box”
css  css3  webdesign 
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
1stwebdesigner: 20 snippets you should be using from HTML5 Boilerplate
Sounds stupid and listy but it's actually a good introduction to some of the more useful and practical pieces of the huge insane HTML5 Boilerplate (html5boilerplate.com).
css  html  html5  performance  javascript  webdevelopment 
january 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Efficiently Rendering CSS
Jury's out on how much this really matters in 2010, but still a great set of tips.
css  webdevelopment  performance 
august 2010 by matthewmcvickar
When Can I Use
"Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies."
html5  css3  svg  html  css  webdesign  webdevelopment  ie  browser 
july 2010 by matthewmcvickar
A List Apart: Articles: Supersize that Background, Please!
How to make an background image scale without using a ton of JavaScript.
webdevelopment  webdesign  css  css3  design  html 
july 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Ben Ward: Understand the Web
What 'the web' actually is, and why building desktop-class applications on it is not what it was built for.
adobe  apple  web  internet  html  css  webdevelopment  webstandards  history 
june 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Mislav on Uniqpath: Detecting device size
Using CSS to detect device size (for things like iPads and iPhones).
css  ipad  iphone  mobile  webdevelopment  webdesign  css3 
april 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Google Code: The Golden Grid
This may be worth looking into. I waffle on whether this sort of thing is ultimately a good decision — you're relying on someone else's framework, it takes a while to learn and master, and once you decide to go with it you're essentially stuck with it. But isn't that the case with any pseudo-framework developed for a website design? I should test this on a little project.
webdevelopment  design  webdesign  css  html  grid  code  opensource 
february 2009 by matthewmcvickar
GitHub: Cufón
This could be good. "Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set: No plug-ins required; it has work on every major browser on the market; no or near-zero configuration needed for standard use cases; it has to be fast, even for sufficiently large amounts of text. And now, after nearly a year of planning and research we believe that these requirements have been met."
sifr  design  webdesign  css  typography  javascript 
february 2009 by matthewmcvickar
Unit Interactive: Blog: Better CSS Font Stacks
Intelligently choosing the graceful degradation (size- and style-wise) of your web fonts.
fonts  css  design  webdesign 
september 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Microsoft: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
Invaluable for troubleshooting web development in IE. Wish I'd known about this before today!
CSS  IE  webdevelopment  windows  software  utilities  browser  bugs 
may 2008 by matthewmcvickar
YAML Builder
"A tool for visual layout development of YAML based CSS layouts." YAML stands for Yet Another Multicolumn Layout.
yaml  css  design  webdesign  html  utilities 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
A List Apart: Articles: CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death
Using one large image with all of your smaller images inside of it, and using CSS to position the background into the right position.
webdevelopment  webdesign  css  sprites 
august 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Blueprint, A CSS Framework by Olav Bjørkøy
"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."
design  grid  css  webstandards 
august 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Jamis Buck: IE is teh 3v1l
Apparently "tags" is a reserved name in IE. For anything.
iebug  webdevelopment  css  html 
august 2007 by matthewmcvickar
JoeHewitt.com: Introducing iUI
"the little JavaScript and CSS bundle I've been working on that makes developing iPhone web apps easy."
iphone  webdevelopment  mobileweb  javascript  css 
august 2007 by matthewmcvickar
XRAY
Reveal box model and other style information for visible elements on a webpage.
webdevelopment  css  design 
august 2007 by matthewmcvickar
css-redundancy-checker
Checks through CSS and HTML to find redundant and unused style definitions.
webdevelopment  webdesign  css 
july 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Particletree: 10 Tips To A Better Form
Things always to remember when building a form.
forms  webdesign  html  design  web  css 
june 2007 by matthewmcvickar
ColorJack: Design Tools
Lots of color tools, including one with helpful color-blindness-simulating utilities.
color  design  webdesign  CSS  web 
june 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Eric's Archived Thoughts: Reset Reloaded
Resetting all default browser styles for a blank slate.
css  webdesign  webstandards 
june 2007 by matthewmcvickar

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