Code smells in CSS – CSS Wizardry – CSS, OOCSS, front-end architecture, performance and more, by Harry Roberts. Reading this, I hang my head in shame as I recognize things I am guilty of. There are CSS tools like http://csslint.net/ which purport to automate helping you write better CSS. It’s easy to think that CSSLint is […]
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CSS stacking with display:table | Ian Devlin
CSS stacking with display:table | Ian Devlin.
Mo’ Pixels Mo’ Problems · An A List Apart Article
Mo’ Pixels Mo’ Problems · An A List Apart Article. Picturefilling as a for-now solution for responsive images.
Star Ratings With Very Little CSS | CSS-Tricks
Star Ratings With Very Little CSS | CSS-Tricks.
On HTML element identifiers – Nefarious Designs
On HTML element identifiers – Nefarious Designs. A nice meditation on the critical bits of HTML that help you distinguish things from other things in your markup. Reading things like this always makes me feel like there’s some sort of markup zen that I have yet to achieve.
A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need
A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need. Unfortunately, we can’t test bandwidth in any reliable way—not yet, at least. Testing would likely mean introducing a significant download to measure against, which is a lot like setting something on fire to see exactly how flammable it is.
* { box-sizing: border-box } FTW « Paul Irish
* { box-sizing: border-box } FTW « Paul Irish. I’ve been using the box-sizing rule selectively, usually when getting form elements to stretch to 100% without having to worry about what their internal padding is going to do to the mix. I’m not sure why I never thought to just apply it everything and switch […]
Pears
Pears. Collect, test, and experiment with interface pattern pairings of CSS & HTML. Pears is an open source WordPress theme, enabling people like you to get your own pattern library up and running quickly. I would be most curious to see what sort of CSS this encourages. One of my biggest frustrations with writing CSS […]